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PASSED    AT    THE 

FIRST    SESSION 


SECOND    CONGRESS     ' 

/  OF    THE 

UNITED     STATES 


AMERICA. 

BEGUN    AND   HELD  AT    THE   CITY   OF    PHILADELPHIA, 

IN  THE   STATE   OF   PENNSYLVANIA,   ON  MONDAY    THE 

TWENTY-FOURTH    OF     OCTOBER,    ONE 

THOUSAND   SEVEN  HUNDRED 

AND     NINETY-ONE  : 

AND    OF    THE 

INDEPENDENCE    OF  THE    UNITED    STATES, 
THE    SIXTEENTH. 


IPtibltsijetJ  h'2  ^utljoritp. 


PHILADELPHIA: 
PRINTED     BY     FRANCIS     CHILDS    AND     JOHN     SWAINE, 

Pi  inters  of  the  Laws  of  the  United  States, 


Congrefs  of  the  United  States, 

BEGUN   AND    HELD    AT    THE    CITY    OF    NEW-YORK,  ON 

WEDNESDAY    THE    FOURTH    OF    MARCH,    ONE 

THOUSAND    SEVEN    HUNDRED 

AND  EIGHTY-NINE. 


THE  Conventions  of  a  number  of  the  States  having  at  the  time  of  their 
adopting  the  Constitution  exprcffed  a  defire,  in  order  to  prevent 
mifconflruB,ion  or  abufc  of  its  powers,  that  further  declaratory  and  re- 
flriElive  claufes  fhould  he  added :  And  as  extending  the  ground  of 
public  confidence  in  the  government  will  beji  e.nfure  the  benifcent  ends 
of  its  inftitution  s 

RESOLVED  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of  Repre- 
fentatives  of  the  Ifnited  States  of  America  in  Congrefs 
affemhled^  two  thirds  of  both  Houfes  concurring^  That  the 
following  articles  be  propofed  to  the  legiflatures  of  the 
feveral  ftates,  as  amendments  to  the  Conftitution  of  the 
United  States,  all  or  any  of  which  articles,  when  ratified 
by  three  fourths  of  the  faid  legiflatures,  to  be  valid  to  all 
intents  and  pm-pofes,  as  part  of  the  faid  Conftitution  j  viz. 

ARTICLES  in  addition  to,  and  amendment  of,  the  Constitutiom 
OF  THE  United  States  of  Auekic/^,  propofed  by  Congrefs, 
and  ratified  by  the  Legiflatures  of  the  feveral  States,  purfuant  to  the 
fifth  Article  of  the  original  Conflitution. 

Article  the  Firfi. 

AFTER  the  firft  enumeration  required  by  the  firfl 
article  of  the  Conftitution,  there  fnall  be  one  reprefen- 
tative  for  every  thirty  thoufand,  until  the  number  fliall 
amount  to  one  hundred,  after  which  the  proportion 
fliall  be  fo  regulated  by  Congrefs,  that  there  fliall  be  not 
lefs  than  one  hundred  reprefentatives,  nor  lefs  than  one 
reprefentative  for  every  forty  thoufand  perfons,  until 
the  number  of  reprefentatives  fliall  amount  to  two  hun- 
dred ;  after  which  the  proportion  fliall  be  fo  regulated 
by  Cc^grefs,  that  there  fliall  not  be  lefs  than  two  hun- 


(         4         ) 

dred  reprefentatives,  nor  more  than  one  reprefentative 
for  every  fiftjr  thoufand  perfons. 

Article  the  Second. 

No  law  varying  the  compenfation  for  the  fervlces  of 
the  fenators  and  reprefentatives,  fhall  take  efieft,  until 
an  election  of  reprefentatives  Ihall  have  intervened. 

Article  the  Third. 

Congrefs  fhall  make  no  law  refpefting  an  eftablifh^ 
ment  of  religion,  or  prohibiting  the  free  exercife  there- 
of; or  abridging  the  freedom  of  fpeech,  or  of  the  prefs ; 
or  the  right  of  the  people  peaceably  to  alfemble,  and  to 
petition  the  government  for  a  redrefs  of  grievances. 

Ay-tick  the  Fourth. 

A  well  regulated  militia  being  necelTary  to  the  fecu- 
rlty  of  a  free  ftate,  the  right  of  the  people  to  keep  and 
bear  arms  fhall  not  be  infringed, 

Artick  the  Fifth. 

No  foldier  fliall  in  time  of  peace  be  quartered  in  any 
houfe  without  the  confent  of  the  owner,  nor  in  time  of 
v/ar,  but  in  a  manner  to  be  prefcribed  by  law. 

Article  the  Sixth. 

The  right  of  the  people  to  be  fecure  in  their  perfons, 
houles,  papers,  and  effeds,  againft  unreafonablc  fearches 
imd  feizures,  fhall  not  be  violated,  and  no  warrants 
fliall  iifue,  but  upon  probable  caufe,  fupported  by  oath 
or  affirmation,  and  particularly  defcribing  the  place  to 
be  fearched,  and  the  perfons  or  things  to  be  feized. 

Article  the  Seventh. 

No  perfon  fliall  be  held  to  anfwer  for  a  capital  or 
otherwife  infamous  crime,  unlefs  on  a  prefentment  or 
jndiclment  of  a  grand  jury,  except  in  cafes  arifmg  in  the 
land  or  naval  forces,  or  in  the  militia  when  in  adlual 
i'ervice  in  time  of  war  or  public  danger  ;  nor  fhall  any 
perfon  be  fubject  for  the  fame  offence  to  be  twice  put  in 
jeopardy  of  life  or  limb  j  nor  fliall  be  compelled  in  an)r 


(        5        > 

criminal  cafe  to  be  a  witnefs  againfl  njifiifelf,  nor  be  de- 
prived of  life,  liberty  or  property,  without  due  procefs  of 
law;  nor  ihal  I  private  property  be  taken  for  public  ufe 
without  juft  compenfation. 

Article  the  Eighth. 

In  all  criminal  profecutions  the  accufed  fhall  enjoy 
the  right  to  a  fpeedy  and  public  trial,  by  an  impartial 
jury  of  the  ftate  and  diftrid  wherein  the  crime  fiiali 
have  been  committed,  which  diftrift  fhall  have  been 
previoufly  afcertained  by  law,  and  to  be  informed  of  the 
nature  and  caufe  of  the  accufation  ;  to  be  confronted 
with  the  witneffes  againfl  him  ;  to  have  compulfory 
procefs  for  obtaining  witnefles  in  his  favor,  and  to  have 
the  alliftance  of  counfel  for  his  defence. 

Article  the  Ninth. 

In  fuits  at  common  law,  where  the  value  in  contro- 
verfy  fliall  exceed  twenty  dollars,  the  right  of  trial  by 
jury  fliall  be  preferved,  and  no  fact,  tried  by  a  jury, 
fhall  be  otherwife  re-examined  in  any  court  of  the  Uni- 
ted States,  than  according  to  the  rules  of  the  common 
law. 

Article  the  Tenth. 

ExcefTive  bail  fhall  not  be  required,  nor  excefllve  fines 
impofed,  nor  cruel  and  unufual  puniflimcnts  infli6led. 

Article  the  Eleventh. 

The  enumeration  in  the  Conftitution,  of  certain  right?, 
fhall  not  be  conflrued  to  deny  or  difparage  others  re- 
tained by  the  people. 

Avtuk  the  Tioeljth. 

The  powers  not  delegated  to  the  United  States  by  the 
Conftitution,  nor  prohibited  by  it  to  the  flates,  are  re- 
ferved  to  the  flates  refpeclively,  or  to  the  people. 

FREDERICK  AUGUSTUS  MUHLENBERG, 

Speaker  of  the  Houfe  of  Reprefentatives. 
JOHN  ADAMS,  Vice- Preftdent  of  the  United  States, 

and  Pref.dent  of  the  Senate. 

«^  r  John  Beckley,  Clerk  of  the  Houfe  of  R'prefentalives. 
^  !_  Sam.  a.  Otis,  Secretary  of  the  Senate. 


(         6         ) 

RATIFICATIONS  of  the  AMENDMENTS 

to  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States. 

NEW-JERSEY. 

State  of  New-Jersey. 
An  ACT  to  ratify  on  the  part  of  this  State  certain  Amendments  to  the 

Confiitution  of  the  United  States. 

WHEREAS  the  Congrefs  of  the  United  States, 
begun  and  held  at  the  city  of  New-York,on  Wed- 
nefday  the  fourth  day  of  March, one  thoufand  feven  hun- 
dred and  eighty-nine,  refolved, two-thirds  of  bothHoufes 
concurring,  That  fundry  articles  be  propofed  to  the  le- 
giflatures  of  the  feveral  States  as  amendments  to  the 
Confiitution  of  the  United  States,  all  or  any  of  which 
articles,  when  ratified  by  three-fourths  of  the  faid  le- 
giflatures,  to  be  valid  to  all  intents  and  purpofes  as  part 
of  the  faid  Confiitution. 

And  whereas  the  Prefident  of  the  United  States,  did, 
in  purfuance  of  a  refolve  of  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of  Re- 
prefentatives  of  the  United  States  of  America  in  Con^ 
grefs  aifembled,  tranfmit  to  the  governor  of  this  flate  the 
amendments  propofed  by  Congrefs,  which  were  by  him 
laid  before  the  legillature  for  their  confideration.  Where- 
fore, 

I .  Be  it  enabled  by  the  Council  and  General  AJfemhly  of 
this  St  ate, and  it  is  hereby  enaded  by  the  authority  of  the  fame. 
That  the  following  articles  propofed  by  Congrefs,  in  ad- 
dition to  and  am.endment  of  the  Confiitution  of  the 
United  States,  to  wit :  ♦ 

[Here  follow,  verbatim,  the  firfl,  third,  fourth,  fifth, 
fixth,  feventh,  eighth,  ninth,  tenth,  eleventh  and  twelfth 
articles  of  the  faid  amendments,  propofed  by  Congrefs 
to  the  legiflatures  of  the  feveral  flates.J 

Be,  and  the  fame  are  hereby  ratified  and  adopted  by 
the  flate  of  New-Jerfey. 

Hoife  of  AJfemhly,  IS^o-venihcr  igih,    1789. 

This  bill  having  been  three  times  read  in  this  Houfe, 

Refched,  That  the  hmt  do  pais. 
By  order  of  the  Houfe, 

JOHN    BEATTY,  Sptaha: 


(        7        ) 

Council-Chamber i  November  20,  1789. 
This  bill  having  been  three  times  read  in  Council, 
Refohed,  That  the  fame  do  pafs. 
By  order  of  the  Houfe, 

WIL.    LIVINGSTON,  Pres't, 

City  of  Burlington,  State  of  Neiu-Jerfey, 
Augiijl  3,  A.  D.  1790. 
THESE  are  to  certify  that  the  annexed  law  is  a  true 
copy  taken  from  the  original,  enrolled  in  my  office. 
BOWESREED,  Stc'y. 


MARYLAND. 


An  ACT  to  ratify  certain  Articles  in  addition  to,  avd  amendment  of, 
the  Con/titution  of  the  United  States  of  America,  propofed  by  Congref 
to  the  Legijlatures  of  the  fever  al  States. 

TT  THERE  AS  it  is  provided  by  the  fifth  article  of 
y  V  the  Conftitution  of  the  United  States  of  Ame- 
rica, that  Congrefs,  whenever  two-thirds  of  both  Houfes 
Ihall  deem  it  neceffary,  fhall  propofe  amendments  to  the 
faid  Conftitution ;  or  on  the  application  of  the  legiflatures 
of  two-thirds  of  the  feveral  States,  fhall  call  a  conven- 
tion for  propofing  amendments,  vv^hich  in  either  cafe 
fliall  be  valid  to  all  intents  and  purpofes  as  part  of  the  faid 
Conftitution,  when  ratified  by  the  legiflatures  of  three- 
fourths  of  the  feveral  States,  or  by  conventions  in  three- 
fourths  thereof,  as  the  one  or  the  other  modes  of  ratifi- 
cation may  be  propofed  by  the  Congrefs. 

And  whereas  at  a  feffion  of  the  United  States,  begun 
and  held  at  the  city  of  New-York,  on  Wednefday  the 
fourth  day  of  March,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thou- 
fand  feven  hundred  and  eighty-nine,  it  was  refolved  by 
the  Senate  and  Houfe  of  Reprefentatives  of  the  faid 
United  States  in  Congrefs  aflembled,  two-thirds  of  both 
Houfes  concurring,  that  the  following  articles  be  pro- 
pofed to  the  legiflatures  of  the  feveral  States,  as  amend- 
ments to  the  Conftitution  of  the  United  States,  all  or 
any  of  which  articles,  when  ratified  by  three-fourths  of 


(        8        ) 

the  faid  leglflatilres,  to  be  valid  to  all  intents  and  pur- 

pofes,  as  part  of  the  faid  Conftitution,  viz. 

[Here  follow  verbatim  the  firft,  fecond,  third,  fourth, 
fifth,  fixth,  feventh,  eighth,  ninth,  tenth,  eleventh, 
and  twelfth  articles  of  the  faid  amendments,  propofed 
by  Congrefs  to  the  legillatures  of  the  feveral  States.] 
Be  it  enabled  by  the  General  AJfemhly  of  Maryla?id, 

That  the  aforefaid  articles  and  each  of  them  be,  and  they 

are  hereby  confirmed  and  ratified. 

By  the  Houfe  of  Delegates,  December  ijth,  ^7^9' 

Read  and  aifented  to.  By  order. 

W.    H  A  R  W  O  O  D,  Clk. 
By  the  Senate^  Deer,  igth,  1789. 

Read  and  aflented  to.  By  order. 

H'y.  R  I  D  G  E  L  Y,  Clk. 


J.  E.  HOWARD. 


(  Seal) 


I  HEREBY  certify  that  the  above  Is  a  true  copy 
from  the  original  engroffed  ad,  as  palTed  by  the  legis- 
lature of  the  Hate  of  Maryland. 

T.    J  O  II  N  S  O  N,  jr.   Clk  Council. 


NORTH-CAROLINA. 

An  ACT  to  ratify  the  Ammdments  to  the  Conftitution  oj  the  United 
Stales. 

WHEREAS  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of  Repre- 
fentatives  of  the  United  States  of  America  in 
Congrefs  alTembled,  on  the  fourth  day  of  March,  did  re- 
folve,  two  thirds  of  both  Houfes  concuring,  that  the  fol- 
lowing articles  be  propofed  to  the  legiflatures  of  the  fe- 
veral dates,  as  amendments  to  the  Conftitution  of  the 
United  States,  all  or  any  of  which  articles  when  ratified 
by  three  fourths  of  the  faid  legiflatures,  to  be  vaHd  to  all 
intents  and  purpofes  as  part  of  the  faid  Conftitution. 
[Here  follow  verbatim  the  firft,  fecond,  third,  fourth, 
fifth,  fixth,  feventh,  eighth,  ninth,  tenth,  eleventh, 
and  twelfth  articles  of  the  faid  amendments,  propofed 
by  Congrefs  to  the  legillatures  of  the  feveral  ftates.J 


(        9        ) 

Be  it  thcrefcrc  enaUcdhy  the  General  A ffemhly  of  the  State 
of  North-Carolina^  and  it  is  hereby  ena^cd  by  the  authority 
of  the  fame.  That  the  faid  amendments,  agreeable  to  the 
fifth  article  of  the  original  Conftitution,  be  held  and  ra- 
tified on  the  part  of  this  ftate,  as  articles  in  addition  to, 
and  amendments  of  the  Conftitution  of  the  United  Slates 

of  America. 

CHA'^    JOHNSON,    S.  S, 
S.    CABARRUS,    S.  H.  C. 

Read  three  times  and  ratified  in  General  Affembly, 
this  2  2d  day  of  December,  A.  D.  1789. 
State  of  North-Carolina. 

I,  James  Glafgow,  fecretary  of  the  faid  ftate,  do  hereby 
certify  the  foregoing  to  be  a  true  copy  of  the  original  aft 
of  the  AfTembly,  filed  in  the  fecretary's  office.  In  tefti- 
mony  whereof,  I  have  hereto  fet  my  hand,  this  tenth  day 
of  February,  1790. 

J.     Glasgow, 


SOUTH-CAROLINA. 

J?z/^^Houfe  c/" Reprefentatives,  January  iSth,  1790. 

THE  Houfe  took  into  confideration  the  report  of 
the  committee,  to  whom  was  referred  the  refolu- 
tion  of  the  Congrefs  of  the  United  States  of  the  fourth 
day  of  March,  one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and  eighty- 
nine,  propofing  amendments  to  the  Conflitution  of  the 
United  States,  viz. 

[Here  follow  verbatim  the  firft,  fecond,  third,  fourth, 
fifth,  fixth,feventh,  eighth,  ninth,  tenth, eleventh, and 
twelfth  articles  of  the  faid  amendments,  propofed  by 
Congrefs  to  the  Legiflatures  of  the  feveral  States.  J 

Which  being  read  through,  was  agreed  to  j — Where- 
upon, 

Refohed,  That  this  Houfe  do  adopt  the  faid  feveral 
articles,  and  that  they  become  a  part  of  the  Conftitu- 
tion  of  the  United  States. 
B 


(         lo         ) 

Refohed,  That  the  refolutions  be  fent  to  the  Senate  for 
their  concurrence. 

By  order  of  the  Hou/e, 

JACOB  READ,  Speaker  of  the  Hou/e  of  Rcprefcntatlves. 
In  the  SenTite,  January  igth,  1790. 
Re/ohed,  That  this  Houfe  do  concur  with  the  Houfe 
of  Reprefentatives  in  the  foregoing  refolutions. 

By  order  of  the  Senate^ 

D.  DE  SAUSSURE,   Prefident  of  the  Senate. 


NEW-HAMPSHIRE. 

State  of  New-Hampshire. 

In  theHouie  ^Reprefentatives,  Jany.  i^ih,  1790. 
PON  reading  and  maturely  confidering  the  pro- 
pofed  amendments  to  the  federal  Conflitution, 
Voted,  To  accept  the  whole  of  faid  amendments, 
except  the  fecond  article,  which  was  rejefted. 
Sent  up  for  concurrence. 

THOS.  BARTLETT,  Speaker, 
In  Senate,  the  fame  day,  read  and  concurred. 

J.  Pearson,  Secy. 

A  true  Copy. 

Atteft.  Joseph  Pearson,  Sec'y, 


DELAWARE. 


THE  General  Afifembly  of  Delaware  having  taken 
into  their  confideration  the  above  amendments 
propofed  by  Congrefs,  to  the  refpeftive  legiflatures  of 
the  feveral  ifates : 

Refohed,  That  the  firfl;  article  be  poflponed. 

Refohed,  That  the  General  AiTembly  do  agree  to 
the  fecond,  third,  fourth,  fifth,  fixth,  feventh,  eighth, 
ninth,  tenth,  eleventh  and  twelfth  articles  ;  and  we  do 
hereby  afient  to,  ratify  and  confirm  the  fame,  as  part  of 
the  Conftitutioii  of  the  United  States. 


(    "    ) 

In  teftlmony  whereof,  we  have  caufed  the  great  feal 
of  the  ftate  to  be  hereunto  affixed,  this  twenty-eighth 
day  of  January,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thoufand 
feven  hundred  and  ninety,  and  in  the  fourteenth  year 
of  the  Independence  of  the  Delaware  flate. 
Signed  by  order  of  Council.^ 

GEO.     MITCHELL,    Speaker. 
Signed  by  order  of  the  Houfe  of  Affe?nbly, 

JEHU     D  A'V  I  S,    Speaker. 


N  E  W  -  Y  O  R  K. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  Nezo-I^ork,  by  the  Grace  of  God, 
free  and  independent. 

To  all  to  zvhom  theft  Prefents  Jliall  come   or  may  concern — greeting. 

KNOW  YE,  That  we  having  infpeded  the  records 
remaining  in  our  fecretary's  office,  do  find  there  a 
certain  acl:  of  our  legiflature,  in  the  words  and  figures 
following : 

'"'An  ACT  ratifying  certain  articles  in  addition  to,  and  amendment  of,  the 
Conjlitution  of  the  United  States  of  America,  propofed  by  the  Congrefs. 

WHEREAS  by  the  fifth  article  of  the  Conftitution 
of  the  United  States  of  America,  it  is  provided,  that  the 
Congrefs,  whenever  two  thirds  of  both  Houfes  ffiall  deem 
it  neceflary,  fliail  propofe  amendments  to  the  faid  Con- 
fliiution,  which  iliall  be  valid  to  all  intents  and  purpofes 
as  part  of  the  faid  Conftitution,  when  ratified  by  the  le- 
giflatures  of  three-fourths  of  the  feveral  ftates,  or  by  con- 
ventions in  three-fourths  thereof,  as  the  one  or  the  other 
mode  of  ratification  may  be  propofed  by  the  Congrefs. 

And  whereas  in  the  feffion  of  the  Congrefs  of  the 
United  States  of  America,  begun  and  held  at  the  city 
of  New-York,  on  Wednefday  the  fourth  of  March,  one 
thoufand  feven  hundred  and  eighty-nine,  it  was  refolved 
by  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of  Reprefentatives  of  the  Uni- 
ted States  of  America,  in  Congrefs  affembled,  two  thirds 
of  both  Houfes  concurring,  that  the  following  articles 
be  propofed  to  the  legiflatures  of  the  feveral  ftates,   as 


(     12     ) 

amendments  to  the  Conftitution  of  the  United  States, 
all  or  any  of  which  articles,  when  ratified  by  three-fourths 
of  the  faid  legiflatures,  to  be  valid  to  all  intents  and  pur- 
pofes  as  part  of  the  faid  Conftitution,  vizt, 
[Here  follow  verbatim  the  ift,  2d,  3d,  4th,  5th,  6th,  yth, 

8th,  9th,  10th,    nth,  and   12th  articles  of  the  faid 

amendments,  propofedby  Congrefsto  the  legiflatures 

of  the  feveral Elates.] 

And  whereas  the  legiflature  of  this  ftate  have  confi- 
dered  the  faid  articles,  and  do  agree  to  the  fame,  except 
the  fecond  article  :  Therefore, 

BE  ItenadedhythepeopleoftheJiateoflSew-Yorh^  re- 
prefented  in  Senate  and  AJfenibly,  and  it  is  hereby  enaBedhy 
the  authority  of  the  fame.  That  the  faid  articles,  except  the 
fecond,  fliatl  be  and  hereby  are  ratified  by  the  legiflature 
of  this  ftate. 

iS/^/^i/ New- York,  in  Affembly,  February  2  2d,  17900 

This  bill  having  been  read  the  third  time, 

Refoived,  That  the  bill  do  pafs. 

By  order  of  the  Apmbly. 

GULIAN  VERPLANCK,  Speaker.. 

State  of  New-York,  in  Senate,  Februy.  2Ath,  1790. 

This  bill  having  been  read  a  third  time, 
Refohed,  That  the  bill  do  pafs. 

By  order  of  the  Senate. 

ISAAC  R.OOSEVELT,  Prcfident  pro  hac  vice. 

Council  o/"Revificn,  2yth  February,  1790. 

Refohed,  That  it  docs  not  appear  improper  to  the 
Council,  that  this  bill,  entitled,  "  An  act  ratifying  cer- 
tain articles  in  addition  to,  and  amendment  of,  the  Con- 
ilitution  of  the  United  States  of  America,  propofed  by 
the  Congrefsj"  fliould  become  a  law  of  this  Itate. 

G  E  O  :    C  L  I  N  T  O  N." 

All  which  we  have  caufcd  to  be  exempHfied  by  thefe 
prefents  :  In  teftimony  whereof,  we  have  caufed  thefe 
cur  letters  to  be  made  patent,  and  the  great  feal  of  our 


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faid  flate  to  be  hereunto  affixed  :  Witnefs  our  trufly  arid 
well-beloved  George  Clinton,  efquire,  governor  of  our 
fald  flate,  general  and  commander  in  chief  of  all  the  mi- 
litia, and  admiral  of  the  navy  of  the  fame,  at  our  city  of 
New- York,  the  tv^enty-feventh  day  of  March,  in  the  year 
one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and  ninety,  and  in  the  four- 
teenth year  of  our  independence. 

g^^^.  GEO:    CLINTON. 

PalTed  the  Secretary's  Office,  the  27th  March,  1 790, 
Lewis  A:  Scott,  Secretary, 


PENNSYLVANIA. 


In  General  Ajfembly. 

State  of  Pennfylvania,  to  wit. 

IN  purfuance  of  a  refolution  of  the  General  Affem- 
bly  of  the  (late  of  Pennfylvania,  being  the  legiflature 
thereof  ;  I  do  hereby  certify,  that  the  paper,  hereunto 
annexed,  contains  an  exa6l  and  true  exemplification  of 
the  act  whereof  it  purports  to  be  a  copy,  by  virtue  where- 
of the  feveral  amendments  therein  mentioned,  propofed 
to  the  Confiitution  of  the  United  States,  were,  on  the 
part  of  the  commonwealth  of  Pennfylvania,  agreed  to, 
ratified,  and  confirmed. 

Given  under  my  hand,  and  the  feal  of  the  flate,  this 
eleventh  day  of  March,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one 
thoufand  feven  hundred  and  ninety. 

RICHARD    PETERS,    Speaker. 


All  ACT  declaring  the  AJfent  cf  this  State  to  certain  Amendments  to  the 
ConJiitutio7i  of  the  United  States. 

Section  I.  "^"^THEREAS  in  purfuance  of  the  fifth  ar- 
V  V  ticle  of  the  Conflitution  of  the  United 
States,  certain  articles  of  amendment  to  the  faid  Con- 
flitution, have  been  propofed  by  the  Congrefs  of  the 
Pnited  States  for  the  confideration  of  the  Icgiflatures 


(      u     ) 

of  the  feveral  ftates :  And  whereas  this  Houfe,  being 
the  leglllature  of  the  ftate  of  Pennfylvania,  having  ma- 
turely deliberated  thereupon,  have  refolved  to  adopt 
and  ratify  the  articles  hereafter  enumerated,  as  part  of 
the  Conftitution  of  the  United  States. 

SeSlion  2.  Be  it  therefore  enaEled^  and  it  is  hereby  enabled 
by  the  Reprefentatives  of  the  Freemen  of  the  Commonwealth 
of  Pennfylvania^  in  General  Ajfembly  met,  and  by  the  au- 
thority of  the  fame  ^  That  the  following  amendments  to 
the  Conftitution  of  the  United  States,  propofed  by  the 
Congrefs  thereof,  viz. 

[Here  follow  the  third,  fourth,  fifth,  fixth,  feventh* 
eighth,  ninth,  tenth,  eleventh  and  twelfth  articles,  pro- 
pofed by  Congrefs  to  the  legiilatures  of  the  feveral 
flates.] 

Be,  and  they  are  hereby  ratified  on  behalf  of  this 
ftate,  to  become,  when  ratified  by  the  legiilatures  of 
three  fourths  of  the  feveral  ftates,  part  of  the  Confti- 
tution of  the  United  States. 

Signed  by  order  of  the  Houfe. 

RICHARD    PETERS,    Sptakcr. 

Enafted  into  a  law,  at  Philadelphia,  on  Wednefday 
the  tenth  day  of  March,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one 
thoufand  feven  hundred  and  ninety. 

Peter  Zachary  Lloyd,  Ckrk  of  ihe  General  AJfanbly. 

I,  Mathew  Irwin,  Efqr.  mafter  of  the  rolls  for  the 
ftate  of  Pennfylvania,  do  certify  the  preceding  writing 
to  be  a  true  copy  (or  exemplification)  of  a  certain  law 
remaining  in  my  office.  Witnefs  my  hand  and  feal  of 
office,  the  nth  March,  1790. 

©Mathw.  Irwin,  M.  R, 


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RHODE-ISLAND. 

Staii  ^Rhode-Island  and  Providence  Plantations, 
In  General  AJfcmbly,  June  SeJJlon,  A.  D.  1790. 

An  ACT  for  ratifying  certain  Articles  as  Amejidmcnts  to  the  Conjlitu- 
tion  of  the  United  States  of  America,  and  which  were  propofed  by  the 
Congrefs  ofthefaid  States,  at  their fejfion  in  March,  A.  D.  1789,  to 
the  Legiflaturcs  of  the  Jeveral  States,  purfuant  to  the  ffth  article  of 
the  aforefaid  Confiitution. 

BE  //  enaded  by  this  General  Affembly^  and  by  the  au-' 
thority  thereof  it  is  hereby  ena^ed.  That  the  follow- 
ing articles,  propofed  by  the  Congrefs  of  the  United 
States  of  America,  at  their  felTion  in  March,  A.  D.  1789, 
to  the  legillatures  of  the  feveral  dates   for  ratification, 
as  amendments  to  the  Conftitution  of  the  faid  United 
States,  purfuant  to  the  fifth  article  of  the  faid  Conftitu- 
tion, be,  and  the  fame  are  hereby  fully  aflented  to,  and 
ratified  on  the  part  of  this  State,  to  wit : 
[Here  follow  verbatim  the  ift,  3d,  4th,  5th,  6th,  7th, 
8th,  9th,  loth,    nth,  and  12th  articles  of  the  faid 
amendments,  propofed  by  Congrefs  to  the  Legifla- 
turcs of  the  feveral  States.] 

It  is  ordered.  That  his  excellency  the  Governor  be, 
and  he  is  hereby  requefted,  to  tranfmit  to  the  Prefidenc 
of  the  faid  United  States,  under  the  feal  of  this  ftate,  a 
copy  of  this  acl,  to  be  communicated  to  the  Senate  and 
Houfe  of  Reprefentatives  of  the  Congrefs  of  the  faid 
United  States. 

A  true  copy  duly  examined. 

Witnefs,  Henry  Ward,  Sec'ry. 


PENNSYLVANIA. 

An  ACT  ratifying  on  behalf  of  the  State  of  Pennfylvania,  the  fiiTc 
amendment  propofed  by  Congrefs  to  the  Coiflitution  of  thi  United 
States. 

WHEREAS  in  purfuance  of  the  fifth  article  of  the 
Conftitution  of  the  United  States,  certain  ar- 
ticles in  addition  to,  and  amendment  of  the  faid  Coii- 


(        i5        ) 

flitution,  have  been  propofed  by  the  Congrefs  of  the 
United  States,  for  the  confideratlon  of  the  legiflatures 
of  the  feveral  dates ;  and  whereas  the  legiflature  of  the 
ftate  of  Pennfylvania,  having  maturely  deliberated  there- 
upon, have  refolved  to  adopt  and  ratify  the  article  here- 
after mentioned,  as  part  of  the  Conftituiion  of  the 
United  States. 

Sec.  I.  Be  it  enaSled  by  the  Senate  ajid  Houfe  of  Repre- 
fentatives  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennfylvania,  in  General 
Affembly  met^  and  it  is  hereby  ena^ed  by  the  authority  of 
the  fame.  That  the  following  article  in  addition  to,  and 
amendment  of  the  Conflitution  of  the  United  States  of 
America,  propofed  by  the  Congrefs  thereof,  vizt. 
[here  article  thefrfi  was  inferted  verbatim] 
be,  and  it  is  hereby  ratified  on  behalf  of  the  ftate  of 
Pennfylvania,  to  become,  when  ratified  by  the  legifla- 
tures of  three  fourths  of  the  feveral  ftates,  part  of  the 
Conftitution  of  the  United  States* 

Wm.  Bingham,  Speaker  of  the  Hoiife  of  Reprsfentaiivesi 
Richard  Peters,  Speaker  of  the  Senate. 

Approved  September  21/?,  1791. 

THOMAS  MIFFLIN,  Governor  of  the 

Covimonziiealth  of  Pennjylvania, 

inrolledthe  ift  0£tober,  179K 
I,  Mathw.  Irwin,  Efquire,  Mafler  of  Rolls  for  the  flate 
of  Pennfylvania,  do  certify,  the  preceeding  writing  to  be 
a  true  copy  [or  exemplification]  of  a  law  inrolledin  my 
office  in  law  book  No.  4,  page  214,  &c.  In  witnefs 
whereof  I  have  hereunto  fet  my  hand  and  feal  of  office 
the  1 2th  day  of  October,  A.  D.  1 7  9 1 . 

(l.  s.)  Mathw.   Irwin,  M.R, 


V  E  R  M  O  N  T. 


An  ACT  ratifying  certain  articles  propofed  by  Congrefs  as  amendments 
to  the  Confiitution  of  the  United  States. 

HEREAS  the   Congrefs  of  the  United  States, 
begun  and  held  at  the  city  of  New- York,  01; 
Wednefday  the  fourth  of  March,  one  thoufand  kv&n 


C      ■;      ) 

hundred  and  eighty-nine ;  Refolved,  that  certain  arti- 
cles, to  the  number  of  twelve,  be  propofed  to  the  legif- 
latures  of  the  feveral  dates,  as  amendments  to  the  Con- 
ftitution  of  the  United  States,  which  articles,  when  ra- 
tified by  three-fourths  of  the  faid  legiflatures,  (hould 
be  valid  to  all  intents  and  purpofes  as  part  of  the  faid 
Conflitution ;  Therefore, 

//  is  hereby  enabled  by  the  General  Ajjemhly^  of  the  State 
of  Vermont,  That  all,  and  every  of  faid  articles  fo  pro- 
pofed as  aforefaid,  be,  and  the  fame  are  hereby  ratified 
and  confirmed  by  the  legillature  of  this  Itate. 

State  of  Vermont,  Secretary  oj  State' s-OJice,  fc. 

I  hereby  certify  that  the  within  is  a  true  copy  of  an 
aft,  paffed  by  the  legillature  of  this  (late,  the  third  day 
of  November,  one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and  ninety- 
one,  and  depofited  in  this  office  according  to  law. 

Attefl.  Res'.  Hopkins,  Secy, 


VIRGINIA. 


General  Affembly,  begun  and  held  at  the  capitol  in  the 

city  of  Richmond,  on  Monday  the  feventeenth  day  of 

October,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thoufand  feven 

hundred  and  ninety-one.  ^;    rnci  t       ^   , 

■^  i^thofUaober  1791. 

TJ  ESOLVED,  That  the  firji  article  of  the  amend- 

X\^  ments  propofed  by  Congrefs  to  the  Conflitution  of 

the  United  States,  be  ratified  by  this  Commonwealth. 

John  Pride,  S.  S. 

No-vember  3<i,  179  r,  Tho^  :  Matthews,  Sp.  H.  D. 

Agreed  to  by  the  Senate. 

Ex'd.     Ex'd.  

Monday,  the  <,th  of  December,  1791. 

Refolved,  That  the  fecond  article  of  the  amendments 

propofed  by  Congrefs  to  the  Conflitution  of  the  United 

States,  be  ratified  by  this  Commonwealth. 

JoHM  Pride,  S.  S. 

December  iK^th,  iy<^i.        Tho^  :  Mathews,  Sp.H.D. 

Agreed  to  by  the  Senate. 

Ex'd.     Ex'd.  C 


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Monday,  the  ph  of  December,  1791. 
Refohedy  That  the  third  article  of  the  amendments 
propofed  by  Congrefs  to  the  Conflitution  of  the  United 
States  be  ratified  by  this  Commonwealth. 

John  Pride,  S.  S. 
December  1 5/Z7, 1 79 1 .  Thos  :  Mathews,  Sp.  H.  D* 

Agreed  to  by  the  Senate. 

Ex'd.     Ex'd.      -.     

Moi^day,  the  ph  of  December,  1 79 1 . 
Refohed,  That  the  fourth  article  of  the  amendments 
propofed  by  Congrefs  to  the  Conflitution  of  the  United 
States  be  ratified  by  this  Commonwealth. 

J     John  Pride,  S.  S. 
December  i  ^th,  1791.     ^     Tho^  :  Mathews,  Sp.  H.  D. 
Agreed  to  by  the  Senate. 

Ex'd.     Ex'd.  - — — 

Monday,  the  ^fh  of  December,  1791. 
Refohed,   That  the  ffth  article  of  the  amendments 
propofed  by  Congrefs  to  the  Conftitution  of  the  United 
States  be  ratified  by  this  Commonwealth. 

John  Pride,  S.  S. 
Dece??:ber  i  ^fh,  1 79  t.  Tho^  :  Mathews,  Sp.  li.  D. 

.     Agreed  to  by  the  Senate. 

Ex'd.     Ex'd. 

Monday,  the  ^th  GfDece?nber,  1 79 1 • 
Refolded,  That  the  fixth  article  of  the  amendments 
propofed  by  Congrefs  to  the  Conftitution  of  the  United 
States  be  ratified  by  this  Commonwealth. 

John  Pride,  S.  S. 
December  1 5//?,  1 79 1.  Tho*  :  Mathews,  Sp.  H.  D. 

Agreed  to  bv  the  Senate. 

Ex'd.     Ek'd.  

Monday,  the  ^th  of  December,  1 791. 
Refohed,  That  the  feventh  article  of  the  amendments 
propofed  by  Congrefs  to  the  Conftitution  of  the  United 
States  be  ratified  by  this  Commonwealth. 

Jonh  Pride,  S.  S. 
'December  i  ^th,  ijgi.  Tho'  :  Mathews,  Sp.  H.  D. 

Agreed  to  by  the  Senate. 
Ex'd.     Ex'd, 


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Monday,  iJoc  ^ih  cf  December,  ^  79  it  • 
Rcfohed,  That  the  eighih  article  of  the  amendments 
propofed  by  Congrefs  to  the  Conilitution  of  the  United 
States  be  ratified  by  this  Commonwealth. 

John  Pride,  S.  S. 
December  1 5/Z>,  1 7 9 1 .  Tho^  :  Mathews,  Sp. H. D. 

Agreed  to  by  the  Senate. 

Ex'd.     Ex'd.  

Monday,  the  ^th  of  December,  ^791* 
Refohed,  That  the  ninth  article  of  the  amendments 
propofed  by  Congrefs  to  the  Conilitution  of  the  United 
States  be  ratified  by  this  Commonwealth. 

John  Pride,  S.  S. 
December  15/Z?,  179 1.  Tho^  :  Mathews,  Sp.  H.  D. 

Agreed  to  by  the  Senate. 

ExM.     Ex'd. 

Monday,  the  ^th  of  December,  1 79 1. 
Refolded,  That  the  tenth  article  of  the  amendments 
propofed  by  Congrefs  to  the  Conflitution  of  the  United 
Scates  be  ratified  by  this  Commonwealth. 

John  Pride,  S.  S. 
December  \<^th,  1791.  Tho' :  Mathews,  Sp.H.D. 

Agreed  to  by  the  Senate. 

Ex'd.     Ex'd,  

Monday,  the  ^th  cf  December,  1 79 1. 
Refohed,  JThT^t  the  eleventh  article  of  the  amendments 
propofed  by  Congrefs  to  the  Conflitution  of  the  United 
States  be  ratified  by  this  Commonwealth. 

John  Pride,  S.  S. 
December  isth,  179 1.  Thqs  :  Mathews,  Sp.  H.  D. 

Agreed  to  by  the  Senate. 

Ex'd.     Ex'd.  

Monday,  the  ^th  of  December,  1791. 
Refohed,  That  the  twefth  article  of  the  amendments 
propofed  by  Congrefs  to  the  Conflitution  of  the  United 
States,  be  ratified  by  this  Commonwealth. 

John  Pride,  S.  S. 
Dece?nber  i^th,  1791.  Tho^ :  Mathews,  Sp.H.D. 

Agreed  to  by  the  Senate, 
Ex'd.     Ex'd. 


SECOND     CONGREg^S 

OF   THE 

UNITED     STATES: 

AT    THE     FIRST    SESSION, 

BEGUN   AND    HELD    AT     THE    CITY    OF   PHILADELPHIA, 

IN  THE   STATE    OF   PENNSYLVANIA,   ON  MONDAY 

THE    'twenty-fourth      OF      OCTOBER, 

ONE   THOUSAND    SEVEN   HUNDRED 

AND     NINETY-ONE. 


CHAPTER     I. 

\4n  ACT  granting  farther  Time  for  making  Return  of 
^Ae  Enumeration  of  the  Inhabitants  in  the  DifiriB  of 
South-Carolina. 

BE  //  enaSled  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of  Re- 
prefentathes  of  the  United  States  of  Ame- 
rica in  Congrefs  affejnbled.  That  it  fliall  be  law-     ^j^^  f^^. 
ful  for  the  Marfhal  of  the  diflrid  of  South-  making  re- 
Carolina  to  complete  and  make  return  of  the  ^"^jg"'^ 
enumeration  of    the  inhabitants   of  the  faid  i  a  March 
diflrift,  to  the  Prefident  of  the  United  States,  ''«*• 
in  the  form  and  manner  prefcribed  by  the  aft, 
intituled,  "  An  aft  providing  for   the  enume- 
ration of  the  inhabitants  of  the  United  States,'* 
at  any  time  on  or  before  the  firfl  day  of  March 
next,  any  thing  in  the  faid  aft  to  the  contrary 
potwithftanding. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker   of  the 
Houfe  of  Reprefentatives. 

JOHN  ADAMS,   Vice-Prefdent  of  the  United 
States,  end  Prefident  of  the  Senate. 
Approved,  November  the  eighth,  1791. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

frefident  of  the  United  States. 


and 


C  22  ) 

CHAPTER    II. 

An  ACT  for  the  Relief  of  David  Cook  ^n^  Thomas 
Campbell. 

Sec.  I.  XJ E  if  enaded  by  the  Senate  and  Hoiife 
ji3  ofReprefentati-ves  of  the  Ujiited  States 
of  America,  i?i  Congrefs  affembled.    That  David 
D.  Cook     Cook,  a  captain  of  artillery  in  the  late  war, 
allowed  a    and  who,  being  fliot  through  the  body  at  the 
penfion,      battle  of  Monmouth,  is  rendered  incapable  to 
obtain  his  livelihood  by  labor,  Ihall  be  placed 
on  the  penfion-Hil  of  the  United  States,    and 
fhall  be  entitled  to  one  third  of  his  monthly 
pay,  as  a  captain  of  artillery  :  Provided,  That 
he  return  into  the  treafury-office,  a  fum  equi- 
valent to  tv/o  thirds  of  his  commutation  of  half 
pay,  being  the  proportion  of'.his  penfion  to  the 
amount  of  his  commutatioru 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enaBed,  That  Tho- 
T.  Camp-  "^^^  Campbell  be  placed  on  the  penfion-lift, 
bell  and  that  the  half  pay  of  a  captain  of  infantry  be 

allowed  to  the  faid  Thomas  Campbell,  who  has 
been  fo  injured  by  repeated  wounds  in  the  fer- 
vice  of  his  country,  that  he  is  unable  to  fupport 
himfelf  by  labor  :  Provided,  That  he  return  into 
the  treafury-office  a  fum  equivalent  to  the  whole 
of  his  commutation  of  half  pay. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the 
Houfe  of  Reprefentatives. 

JOHN  ADAMS,  Vice- Pr^f. dent  of  the  United 
States,  and  Prefident  of  the  Senate. 

Approved,  December ftxteenth,  1791. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prejidait  of  the  United  States. 


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CHAPTER    III. 

An  ACT  making  A?vKOVK\ATioii%  for  the  Support 
of  Government  for  the  year  one  thonfand  feven  hun- 
dred and  ninety-two. 

Sec.  I.  "13  E  //  enaded  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe 
_£3  of  Reprefentativcs  of  the  United  States 
of  America^  inCongrefs  affenibled.   That  for  the  cpg^jfj^ap. 
fervice  of  the  year  one  thoufand  feven  hundred  prophations 
and  ninety-two,  and  the  fupport  of  the  civil  Hft  ^""^  ''92- 
of  the  United  States,  including  the  incidental 
and  contingent  expenfes  of  the  feveral  depart- 
ments and  offices  thereof,  there  fhall  be  appro- 
priated a  fum  of  money  not  exceeding  three 
hundred  and  twenty-nine  thoufand,  fix  hun-  ^'^"^  ^'^* 
dred  and  fifty-three  dollars,  and  fifty-fix  cents  ; 
that  is  to  fay. 

For  the  compenfations  granted  by  law  to  the  tions  to  the 
Prefident  of  the  United  States,  the  Vice-Prefi-  Prefuient& 
dent.  Chief  Juftice,  Affociate  Judges,  and  At-  den?,judgei 
tornev  General,  fifty-three  thoufand  dollars.      &  attomey- 

■'  general; 

For  the  like  compenfations  to  the  Diftrift  Diftria 
Judges,  nineteen  thoufand  eight  hundred  dol-  judges ; 
lars. 

For  the  like  compenfations  to  the  members  ivfemberfof 
of  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of  Reprefentatives,  and  Seime&ii. 
the  officers  and  attendants  of  the  two  Houfes,  t,^^'.^^ 
eftimated  on  a  feffions  of  fix  months  continu-  officers  and 
ance,  and  including  the  travelling  expenfes  of  ^"^"^^^^^^  J 
the  members,  one  hundred  and  twenty-nine 
thoufand,  feven  hundred  and  thirty  dollars. 

For  the  like  compenfations  to  the  Secretary 
and  officers  of  the  feveral  departments  of  the  officers'Tf 
Treafury  of  the  United  States,  including  clerks  thetreafury 
and  attendants,  and  the  falaries  of  the  refpedlive  attendams. 
loan-officers,  fixty  thoufand  three  hundred  dol-  ^"^  J"=^"- 
■lars.  °*''"- 


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Compenfa-  For  the  like  compenfations  to  the  Secretary 
sTcTeuryof  and  officcrs  of  the  department  of  State,  fix 
State  and    thoufand  three  hundred  dollars. 

oflicers,  i        ti  r     • 

Secretary  of  ^^  ^"^  ^^^^  compcnfations  to  the  Secretary 
War  and  and  officers  of  the  department  of  War,  nine 
officers,      thoufand  fix  hundred  dollars. 

Board  com-  For  the  like  compenfations  to  the  members 
miffioners,   ^f  ^^e  Board  of  Commiffioners,  for  the  fettle- 

clerks,  &c.  ^      ,  ,  i         ,  t    •       . 

ment   of   the  accounts   between  the    United 

States    and    the    individual   ftates,    including 

clerks  and  attendants,  thirteen  thoufand  one 

hundred  dollars. 

Governors,      For  the  like  compenfations  to  the  Governors, 

^"f "  ^ffi'^  Judges  and  other  officers  of  the  Weftern  Terri- 

cers'^ofV'  tory  of  the  United  States,  including   contin- 

Territory.   gencics,  elcveu  thoufand  dollars. 

For  the  payment  of  the  annual  grant  to  Baron 
Steuben,  purfuant  to  an  act  of  Cong refs,  two 
thoufand  live  hundred  dollars. 

For  the  payment  of  fundry  penfions  granted 
by  the  late  government,  two  thoufand  feven 
hundred  and  fixty-feven  dollars,  and  feventy- 
three  cents. 

For  defraying  all  other  incidental  and  con- 
cxpenS^of  tingent  expenfes  of  the  civil  liil  ellablifhment, 
civil  lift,  including  firewood,  ftationary  together  with 
n^o  Houfc!  ^^^  printing  work,  and  all  other  contingent 
of  Congrefs  cxpenfes  of  the  two  Houfes  of  Congrefs,  rent 
^'^'  and  office-cxpenfes  of  the  three  feveral  depart- 

ments, namely,  Treafury,  State,  War,  and  of 
the  General  Board  of  Commiffioners,  twenty- 
one  thoufand  live  hundred  and  fifty-five  dollars, 
and  eighty-three  cents. 

TotheJoor      ^^^'  ^'   ^'^^  ^^  ^^  further  enacted  J  That  the 

keepers.      compcnfation  to  the  door-keepers  of  the  two 

Houfes,  for  fervices  which  have  been  heretofore 

rendered  or  may  be  rendered  in  the  recefs  of 

Congrefs  for  the  year  one  thoufand  .itytn  hun- 


B.  Steuben, 


Fcnficns. 


(        =5        ) 

dred  and  ninety-two,  and  certified  by  the  Prefi- 
dent  of  the  Senate  or  Speaker  of  the  Iloufe  of 
Reprefentatives,  in  manner  required  by  law, 
for  like  fervices  during  feflions,  fliall  be  dif- 
charged  out  of  the  money  herein  before  ap- 
propriated for  the  contingent  expenfes  of  the 
two  Houfes  of  Congrefs. 

Sec.  3.  And  be  it  further  enaded.   That  for  poriiquwia- 
difcharging  certain  liquidated  claims  upon  the  ted  claims. 
United  States,  for  making  good  deficiencies  in  fn^c^vnmi, 
former  appropriations  for  the  fupport  of  the  r^y^^ent  <^^ 
civil  lift-eftablilhment,  and  for  aiding  the  fund  f',Z\l'^ 
appropriated  for  the  payment  of  certain  officers  ten  cutters. 
of  the  courts,  jurors  and  witnelfes,  and  for  the 
eftablirhment  of  ten  cutters,  there  fhall  be  ap- 
propriated a  fum  of  money  not  exceeding  one 
hundred  and  ninety-feven  thoufand,  one  hun- 
dred and  nineteen  dollars, and  forty-nine  cents  j 
that  is  to  fay. 

For  difcharging  a  balance  due  on  a  liquida-  Balance  due 
ted  claim  of  his  mofl  Chriftian  Majefty  againfl  his  Giriai- 
the  United  States,  for  fupplies  during  the  late  ^^  Majefty, 
war,  nine  thoufand  and  twenty  dollars,  and  fix- 
ty- eight  cents. 

For  payment  of  the  principal  and  interefl  on  (.,^j^^  ^^ 
a  liquidated  claim  of  Oliver  Pollock,  late  com-  O,  Poiiodt 
mercial  agent  of  the  United  States,  at  New-Or- 
leans, for  fupplies  of  clothing,  arms  and  mili- 
tary flores,  during  the  late  war,  one  hundred 
and  eight  thoufand, fix  hundred  and  five  dollars, 
and  two  cents:  Pro'vided,  That  the  faid  monies 
be  not  paid  to  the  faid  Oliver  Pollock,  with- 
out the  confent  of  the  agents  of  the  court  of 
Spain. 

For  making  good  deficiencies  In  the  laft  ap-  DeHciendss 
propriations  for  the  compenfations  to  fundry  of  civil  lift, 
officers  of  the  civil  lifl-eftablifhment,  five  thou- 
fand four  hundred  and  feventy-one  dollars. 
D 


(        ^6        ) 

For  fundry      "Por  defraying  fundry  authorized  expenfes  to 
expen  es.     ^j^^  commiflioners  of  loans  in  the  feveral  ftates, 
twenty-one  thoufand  dollars. 

For  defraying  a  balance  of  certain  liquidated 
and  contingent  expenfes  in  the  treafury-depart- 
ment,  two  thoufand  eight  hundred  dollars. 

For  defraying  the  additional  expenfe  of  the 
enumeration  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  United 
States,  nineteen  thoufand  feven  hundred  and 
feventy-two  dollars  and  feventy-nine  cents. 

For  making  good  a  deficiency  in  former  ap- 
propriations, to  difcharge  the  expenfes  to  clerks, 
jurors  and  witnefTes  in  the  courts  of  the  Uni- 
ted States,  five  thoufand  dollars. 

For  the  maintenance  and  repair  of  light- 
houfes,  beacons,  piers,  flakes  and  buoys,  fix- 
teen  thoufand  dollars. 

For  the  expenfe  of  keeping  prifoners  com- 
mitted under  the  authority  of  the  United  States, 
four  thoufand  dollars. 

For  the  expenfe  of  clerks  and  books  in  ar- 
ranging the  public  fecurities,  two  thoufand 
four  hundred  and  fifty  dollars. 

For  the  purchafe  of  hydrometers  for  the  ufe 
of  the  officers  in  the  execution  of  the  laws  of 
revenue,  one  thoufand  dollars. 

For  the  farther  expenfe  of  building  and  equip- 
ping ten  cutters,  two  thoufand  dollars. 

I'ormiiitary  Scc.  4.  And  be  it  further  ena6led^  That  for 
thefupport  of  the  military  eflablifhment  of  the 
United  States,  in  the  year  one  thoufand  feven 
hundred  and  ninety-two,  the  payment  of  the 
annual  allowances  to  the  invalid  penfioners  of 
the  United  States,  for  defraying  all  expenfes 
incident  to  the  Indian  department,  and  for 
defraying  the  expenfes  incurred  in  the  defenfive 
protedion  of  the  frontiers  againfl  the  Indians, 


eflablifh 
ment  for 
1792. 


(      ^7      ) 

during  the  years  one  thoufand  feven  hundred  for  military 
and  ninety,  and  one  thoufand  feven  hundred  eftabiiftm't 
and  ninety-one,by  virtue  of  the  authority  vefled  "^^  ''^*" 
in  the  Prefident  of  the  United  States,  by  the 
a6ls  relative  to  the  miHtary  eftabHfhment,  paifed 
the  twenty-ninth  of  September,  one  thoufand 
feven  hundred  and  eighty-nine,  and  the  thirti- 
eth of  April,  one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and 
ninety,  and  for  which,  no  appropriations  have 
been  made,  there  iliall  be  appropriated  a  fum 
of  money,  not  exceeding  five  hundred    and 
thirty,  two  thoufand,  four  hundred  and  forty- 
nine  dollars,  feventy-fix  cents,  and  two  thirds 
of  a  cent ;  that  is  to  fay. 

For  the  pay  of  the  troops,  one  hundred  and 
two  thoufand  fix  hundred  and  eighty-fix  dollars. 

For  fubfiftence,  one  hundred  and  nineteen 
thoufand,  fix  hundred  and  eighty-eight  dollars, 
and  ninety-feven  cents. 

For  clothing   forty-eight  thoufand  dollars. 

For  forage,  four  thoufand  one  hundred  and 
fifty-two  dollars. 

For  the  hofpital-department,  fix  thoufand 
dollars. 

For  the  quarter-mailer's  department,  fifty 
thoufand  dollars. 

For  the  ordnance  department,  feven  thou- 
fand two  hundred  and  four  dollars  and  fixty- 
four  cents. 

For  the  contingent  expenfes  of  the  war  de- 
partment, including  maps,  hire  of  expreffes,  al- 
lowances to  officers  for  extra-expenfes, printing, 
lofs  of  flores  of  all  kinds,  advertifing  and  ap- 
prehending deferters,  twenty  thoufand  dollars. 

For  the  difcharge  of  certain  fums  due  for  Compenfa- 
pay  and  fubfiftence  of  fundry  officers  of  the  late  ^"'''J^^""" 
army,  and  for  pay  of  the  late  Maryland  line,  ^V  ""* 


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for  which  no  appropriations  have  been  made, 
ten  thoufand  four  hundred  and  ninety  doUarSj 
and  thirty-fix  cents. 

For  the  payment  of  the  annual  allowances 
to  invalid  penfioners,  eighty-feven  thoufan^ 
four  hundred  and  fixty-three  dollars,  fixty  cents, 
and  two  thirds  of  a  cent. 

For  defraying  ail  expenfes  incident  to  the 
Indian  department,  authorized  by  law,  thirty-, 
nine  thoufand  four  hundred  and  twenty-four 
dollars,  and  feventy-one  cents. 

For  defraying  the  expenfes  incurred  in  the 
defenfive  proteftion  of  the  frontiers,  as  before 
recited,  thirty-feven  thoufand,  three  hundred 
and  thirty-nine  dollars,  and  forty-eight  cents. 

Sec.  5,  And  be  it  further  enafled.  That  the 
for  thefeve-  fcvcral  appropriations,  herein  before  made,  (hall 
rai  appro-  \^^  p^^j^j  ^^^  difchargcd  out  of  the  funds  fol- 
lowing, to  Vv4t  ;  firit,  out  of  the  fum  of  fix 
hundred  thoufand  dollars  which  by  the  aft, 
intituled  "  An  act  making  provifion  for  the 
debt  of  the  United  States,"  is  referved,  yearly, 
for  thefupport  of  the  government  of  theUnited 
States,  and  their  common  defence  ;  and  fecond-*. 
iy,  cut  of  fuch  furplus  as  fhall  have  accrued  to 
the  end  of  the  prefent  year,  upon  the  revenues 
heretofore  eftablifhed,  over  and  above  the  fums 
neceflary  for  the  payment  of  intereft  on  the 
public  debt  during  the  fame  year,  and  for  fatis- 
fying  other  prior  appropriations. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the 
Houfe  of  Reprefcntatives. 

JOHN  ADAMS,  Vice-Pref  dent  of  theUnited 
States,  and  Prefideni  of  the  Senate. 

Approved,  December twenty-thiwi,  1791. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prejidcnt  of  the  United  Stales^ 


To  invalid 
penlioners. 


Indian  de 
partrnent. 


Frontierj. 


The  funds 


pnationa. 


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CHAPTER    IV. 

j-ln  ACT  for  carrying  ifito  effeEl  a  ContraEl  between  tkt 
United  States  and  the  State  of  Pennsylvania. 

FOR  duly  conveying  to  the  ftate  of  Penn- 
fylvania  a  certain  trad  of  land,  the  right 
to  the  government  and  jurifdi6lion  whereof  was 
relinquiflied  to  the  faid  State  by  a  refolution  of 
Congrcfs  of  the  fourth  day  of  September,  in  the 
year  one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and  eighty 
eight,  and  whereof  the  right  of  foil  has  been 
fold  by  virtue  of  a  previous  refoUition  of  Con- 
grefs  of  the  fixth  day  of  June  in  the  faid  year  j 

BE  it  enatled by  the  Senate  and  House  of 
Representatives  of  the  United  States  of  Ame-  "^"^^^  "^ 
rica^  in  Congrefs  affembled^   That  the  Prefident  veyed*^to' 
of  the  United  States  be  authorized,  on  fulfil-  Pennfyiva- 
ment  of  the  terms  ftipulated  on  the  part  of  the  "ain°condu" 
(late  of  Pennfylvania,  to  iiTue  letters  patent,  tions. 
in  the  name  and  under  the  feal  of  the  United 
States,  granting  and  conveying  to  the  faid  State 
forever  the  faid  tracl  of  land,  as  the  fame  was 
afcertained  by  a  furvey  made  in  purfuance  of 
the  refolution  of  Congrefs  of  the  fixth  day  of 
June  one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and  eighty 
eight. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  oj  thi 
Houfe  of  Reprejentatives. 

JOHN  ADAMS,  Vice-Prejtdent  of  the  United 
States,  and  Prefident  of  the  Senate. 

Approved,  January  the  third,  1792. 

G^:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States. 


(      30      ) 
CHAPTER    V. 

^«  ACT  to  extend  the  Time  limited  for  fettling  the  Kc^ 
COUNTS  ofiheVNiTzv  States  with  the  indi vidua t 
States. 

Sec.  I.  TJ  E  //  enaded  by  the  Senate  and 
J3  House' o/"  Representatives  of 
Board  com-  the  United  States  of  America,  in  Ccngrefs  offembled^ 
fof  Stie-  '^^^^  ^^^  powers  of  the  Board  of  Commiffioners 
mentofac-  which,  by  an  a£l  paiTed  in  the  fecond  feffion 
counts  con-  ^f  thc  firfl  CoH^refs,  was  eftabllflied  to  fettle 

tlllUed     till  ,  ,        ^  ,  TT       •  1         O  1 

1793.  the  accounts  between  the  United  btates  and 
individual  States,  fliall  continue  until  the  firfh 
day  of  July  one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and 
ninety  three,  unlefs  the  bufinefs  fhall  be  fooner 
accomplifhed. 

To  fettle  Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  otaSled,  That  the 
with  ver.  aforefaid  aft  fliall  extend  to  the  fettlement  of 
the  accounts  between  the  United  States  and 
the  flate  of  Vermont  :  and  that  until  the  firll 
day  of  December  next  fliall  be  allowed  for  the 
faid  State  to  exhibit  it's  claims. 

of  rin      ^^^*  3*  '^^^  ^"  it  further  enabled.  That  from 

cipli  clerk,  and  after  the  pafling  of  this  aft,  the  pay  of  the 

principal  clerk  of  the  faid  Board  fliall  be  the 

fame  as  the  pay  of  the  principal  clerk  in  the 

Auditor's  office. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the 
Houfe  of  Reprefentatives. 

JOHN  ADAMS,  Vice-Prefident  of  the  United. 
States,  and  Prefident  of  the  Senate. 

Approved,  January  the  twenty-third,  1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States, 


(      31       ) 
C  H  A  P  T  E  R    VI. 

An  ACT  concerning  certain  Fisheries  of  the  United 
States,  and  for  the  regulation  and  government  of  the  Fifh- 
ermen  employed  therein. 

Sec.  I.  TJ  E  ii  enacted  by  the  Senate  and 
J3  House  of  Representatives  of 
ths  United  States  of  America  in  Congrefs  ajfcmhled^  A!!owar,:a 
That  the  allowance  now  made  upon  the  expor-  i"  i^^u  of 
tation  of  dried  fifh  of  the  fifherles  of  the  United  Jr^lpo,^,. 
States,  in  lieu  of  a  drawback  of  the  duties  paid  tioa  of  dried 
on  the  fait  ufed  in  preferving  the  fame,  iliall  ^^  ^^Jf  ^ 
ceafe  on  all  dried  fifh  exported  after  the  tenth  179^^ 
day  of  June  next,  and  as  a  commutation  and 
equivalent  therefor,   there  fhall  be  afterwards 
paid  on  the  lafl  day  of  December  annually,  to  ""^^^^^^ 

1  -^        rr  1  !_•  1.  -^     1       equivalent 

the  owner  or  every  veilel  or  his  agent,  by  the  each  fiHiing 
colleaor  of  the  diflrid  where  fuch  veilel  may  ^^^'^f^J^"" 
belong,  that  fhall  be  qualified  agreeably  to  law,  according 
for  carrying  on  the  bank  and  other  cod  fifli-  *°  i^urd-n 
cries,  and  that  fliall  actually  have  been  employ-  ceed  170 
ed  therein  at  fea  for  the  term  of  four  months  ^oii^^s, 
at  the  leafl,  of  the  fifliing  feafon,  next  preceed- 
ing  which  feafon  is  accounted  to  be  from  the 
iaft  day  of  February  to  the  lafl  day  of  Novem- 
ber in  every  year,  for  each  and  every  ton  of 
fuch  veffel's  burthen  according  to  her  admea- 
furement  as  licenfed  or  enrolled,  if  of  twenty 
tons  and  not  exceeding  thirty  tons,  one  and 
an  half  dollars  and  if  above  thirty  tons,  two 
and  an  half  dollars  of  which  allowance  afore- 
faid,  three  eighth  parts  fhalt  accrue   and  be- 
long to  the  owner  of  fuch  fifhing  velTel,  and 
the  other  five  eights  thereof  fliall  be  divided 
by  him,  his   agent  or  lawful  reprefentative,  to 
and  among  the  feveral  fifliermen  who  fhall  have 
been  employed  in  fuch  velfel  during  the  feafon 
aforefaid,  or  a  part  thereof,  as  the  cafe  may  be, 
in  fuch  proportions  as  the   fifh  they  fhall  re- 
fpeftively  have  taken  may  bear  to  the  whole 
quantity  of  fifli  taken  on  board  fuch  vefTel  du- 


(       3^      ) 

ring  fuch  feafon:  Provided,  That  the  allowance 

aforefaid  on  any  one  veffel,  for  one  feafon,  fliall 

not  exceed  one  hundred  and  feventy  dollars. 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enaded.   That  oa 

Wncl  ^to  ^^^  ^^^  ^^y  ^^  December  annually,  as  afore- 

fifhing  vef-  faid,  there  fliall  alfo  be  paid  to  the  owner  of 

ids  above  5  gverv  fifhino:  boat  or  veiTel  of  more  than  five 

tons,  "^  1    1     r       1  1  . 

tons,  and  iels  than  twenty  tons,  or  to  his  agent 
or  lawful  reprefentative,  by  the  colleftor  of 
the  diftrift  where  fuch  boat  or  veffel  may  be- 
long, the  fum  of  one  dollar  upon  every  ton 
admeafurement  of  fuch  boat  or  veffel ;  which 
allowance  fhall  be  accounted  for  as  part  of  the 
proceeds  of  the  fares  of  faid  boat  or  veffel,  and 
Ihall  accordingly  be  fo  divided  among  all  per- 
fons  interefted  therein  :  Provided  however^ 
That  this  allowance  (hall  be  made  only  to  fuch 
boats  or  veffels  as  (hall  have  actually  been  em- 
ployed at  fea  in  the  cod  fifliery,  for  the  term 
•■  '^  of  four  months  at  the  leaft,  of  the  preceeding 
feafon  :  And  provided  alfo.  That  fuch  boat  or 
""^TatTons!  veffel  Ihall  have  landed  in  the  courfe  of  faid 
preceeding  feafon,  a  quantity  of  filh  not  lefs 
than  twelve  quintals  for  every  ton  of  her  ad- 
meafurement 5  the  faid  quantity  of  fifh  to  be 
afcertained  when  dried  and  cured  fit  for  expor- 
tation, and  according  to  the  weight  thereof,  as 
the  fame  Ihall  v/eigh  at  the  time  of  delivery  when 
aftually  fold  ;  which  account  of  the  weight, 
with  the  original  adjuilment  and  fettlement  of 
the  fare  or  fares  among  the  owners  and  fifher- 
men,  together  with  a  written  account  of  the 
length,  breadth  and  depth  of  faid  boat  or  veffel, 
and  the  time  Ihe  has  aftuaily  been  employed  in 
the  fifliery  in  the  preceeding  feafon,  fnali  in  all 
cafes  be  produced  and  fvvorn  or  afnrmed  to,  be- 
fore the  faid  colleclor  of  the  diflridl  in  order 
to  entitle  the  owner,  his  agent  or  iav/ful  repre* 
fentative,  to  receive  the  allowance  aforefaid. 
And  if  at  any  time  within  one  year  after  pay- 


(      33      ) 

ment  of  fuch  allowance,  it  flinll  appear  that  any 
fraud  *or  deceit  has  been  pradifed  in  obtaining 
tlic  fame,  th.^  boat  or  veffel  upon  v.'hich  fuch  al- 
lowance fliall  have  been  paid,  if  found  within 
the  diftrid:  aforefaid,  ihali  be  forfeited  ;  other- 
wife  the  owner  or  owners  having  pradifed  fuch 
fraud  or  deceit,  fhall  forfeit  and  pay  one  hun- 
dred dollars  ;  to  be  fued  for,  recovered  and 
appropriated  in  like  manner  as  forfeitures  and 
penalties  are  to  be  fued  for,  recovered  and  ap- 
propriated for  any  breach  of  an  aft,  entitled, 
"  An  aft  to  provide  more  efFeftually  for  the  col- 
left  ion  of  the  duties  impofed  by  law  on  goods, 
wares  and  merchandize  imported  into  the 
United  States,  and  on  the  tonnage  of  fliips  or 
veffels." 

Sec.  3.  A?id  be  it  further  enaded^  That  the  Owners  of 
owaier  or  owners  of  every  fi filing  veffel  of  twen-  fe'isToJ^tt 
ty  tons  and  upwards,  his  or  their  agent  or  law-  proceed  to 
ful  reprefentative,  fliall  previous  to   receiving  °!!'^'"  ^*^^ 

,  iV  1   •    1     •        *^        •  1      t  r        •        1  •         r>,^   allowances 

the  allowance  v.'hich  is  provided  tor  in  this  act,  granted  b/ 
produce  to  the  coUeftor  who  is  authorized  to  ^'"^'^  ^^• 
pay  the  fame,  the  original  agreement  or  agree- 
ments v/hich  may  have  been  made  v^^ith  the 
fifliermen  employed  on  board  fuch  veffel,  as  is 
herein  before  required,  and  alfo  a  certificate  to 
be  by  him  or  them  fubfcribed,  therein  mention- 
ing the  particular  days  on  which  fuch  veffel 
failed  and  returned  on  the  feveral  voyages  or 
fares,  flie  may  have  made  in  the  preceeding 
fifiiing  feafon,  to  the  truth  of  which  they  fhall 
fwear  or  affirm  before  the  coUeftor  aforefaid. 

Sec.  4.  And  he  it  further  enaded.  That  no 
fhip  or  veffel  of  twenty  tons  or  upwards,  em- 
ployed as  aforefaid,  fhall  be  entitled  to  the  al- 
lowance granted  by  this  aft,  unlefs  the  fkipper 
or  mafter  thereof  Ihall,  before  he  proceeds  on 
any  fifiiing  voyage,  make  an  agreement  in  wri- 
ting or  in  print,  with  every  fifherman  employ- 


fels  how  to 
proceed  to 
obtain  the 
allowances 


(        34        ) 

Owners  of  cd  therein,  excepting  only  any  apprentice  or 
fi{hing  vef-  fervant  of  himfelf  or  owner  ;  and  in  addition 
to  fuch  terms  of  fliipment  as  may  be  agreed  on, 
lliall  in  fuch  agreement  exprefs  whether  the 
grasuedby    ^^^^^  IS  to  continuc  for  one  voyage  or  for  the 
ihis  aci.      fifhing  feafon,    and  fliall  alfo  exprefs  that  the 
fifh  or  the  proceeds  of  fuch  fifliing  voyage  or 
voyages  which  may    appertain  to   the  fifher- 
men,  fhall  be  divided  among  them  in  propor- 
tion to  the  quantities  or  number  of  faid  filh 
they   may    refpeftively  have  caught  ;   which 
agreement  Ihall  be  endorfed  or  counterfigned 
by  the  owner  of  fuch  fifliing  veilel,  or  his  agent : 
And  if  any  fifherman  having  engaged  himfelf 
for  a  voyage  or  for  the  fifliing  feafon,  in  any 
fdhing  veflel,  and  figned  an  agreement  therefor 
as  aforefaid,   fhall  thereafter  and  while  fuch 
agreement  remains  in  force  and  to  be  perform- 
ed, defert  or  abfent   himJeif  from  fuch  veiTel, 
without  leave  of  the  mafter  or  ikipper  thereof, 
or  of  the  owner  or  his  agent,  fuch  deferter  fhall 
be  liable  to  the  fame  penalties  as  deferting  fea- 
men  or  mariners  are  fubjeft  to  in  the  m.er- 
chant's  fervice,  and  may  in  the  like  manner, 
and  upon  the  like  complaint  and   proof,  be 
apprehended  and   detained  ;   and  all   cofls  of 
procefs  and  commitment,  if  paid  by  the  mafler 
or  owner,  fhall  be  deducted  out  of  the  fhare  of 
fifh,  or  proceeds  of  any  fifhing  voyage  to  which 
fuch  deferter  had    or  fliali  become   entitled. 
And  any  fifherman,  having  engaged  himfelf  as 
aforefaid,  who  fliall  during  fuch  fifiiing  voyage, 
refufe  or  neglect  his  proper  duty  on  board  the 
fifhing  veflel,  being  thereto  ordered  or  required 
by  the  mafler  or  fliipper  thereof,  or  fliall  other- 
wife  refill  his  juil  commands,  to  the  hindrance 
or  detriment  of  fuch  voyage,  befide  being  an- 
fwerable  for  all  damages  arifing  thereby,  fliall 
forfeit  to  the  ufe  of  the  owner  of  fuch  veflfel, 
his  fhare  of  the  allowance,  which  fhall  be  paid 
upon  fuch  voyage  as  is  herein  granted. 


(       3S       ) 

Scc.  5.  Andbeitfurthcrenaded,  That  where  ownsrs  of 
an  agreement  or  contraQ:  fhall  be  fo  made  and  ^"''"s  vef- 
llgned,  for  a  fiflilng  voyage  or  for  the  fiftiing  p'oce^eTtr 
fcafoii,  and  any  fifli  which  may  have  been  "Lnain  the 
cau'ght  on  board  fuch  veflel  during  the  fame,  glanted^by 
ijiali  be  deUvered  to  the  owner  or  to  his  agent,  th:s3ct. 
for  cure,  and  Ihail  be  fold  by  faid  owner  or 
agent,  fuch  velfel  fhall  for  the  term  of  fix 
months  after  fuch  fale,  be  liable  and  anfwerable 
for  the  ikipper's  and  every  other  filherman's 
fliare  of  fuch  fiili,  andmay  be  proceeded  againfl 
in  the  fame  form,  and  to  the  fame  elied,  as 
any  other  veffel  is  by  law  liable,  and  may  be 
proceeded  againft  for  the  wages  of  feam.en  or 
mariners  in  the  merchant's  fervice.  And  up- 
on fuch  procefs  for  the  value  of  a  ihare  or  fnares 
of  the  proceeds  of  fifh  delivered  and  fold  as 
aforefaid,  it  (hall  be  incumbent  on  the  owner 
or  his  agent,  to  produce  a  juft  account  of  the 
fales  and  divifion  of  fuch  filli  according  to  fuch 
agreement  orcontra£l:,  otherwife  the  faid  veil'el 
fhall  be  anfwerable  upon  fuch  procefs  for  what 
may  be  the  higheft  value  of  the  fhare  or  fhares 
demanded.  But  in  all  cafes,  the  owner  of 
fuch  veffel  or  his  agent,  appearing  to  anfwer 
to  fuch  procefs,  may  offer  thereupon  his  ac- 
count of  general  fupplies  made  for  fuch  fifh- 
ing  voyage,  and  of  other  fupplies  therefor 
made,  to  either  of  the  demandants,  and  fhall  be 
allowed  to  produce  evidence  thereof  in  anfwer 
to  their  demands  refpedlively,  and  judgment 
fhall  be  rendered  upon  fuch  procefs,  for  the  re- 
fpective  balances,  which  upon  fuch  an  enquiry 
fnall  appear  :  Provided  al-ujaysj  That  when  pro- 
cefs fhall  be  iffued  againft  any  veffel  liable  as 
aforefaid,  if  the  owner  thereof  or  his  agent 
will  give  bond  to  each  fiflicrman  in  whofe  fa- 
vor fuch  procefs  fhall  be  inflituted,  v/ith  fuffi- 
cient  fecurity,  to  the  fatisfadion  of  two  juflices 
of  the  peace,  one  of  whom  fhall  be  named  by 


(      36     .) 

fuch  owner  or  agent,  and  the  other  by  the 
iifherman  or  fifliermen  purfuing  fuch  procefs ; 
or  if  either  party  ihall  refufe,  then  the  juilice 
firft  appointed  Ihall  name  his  affociate,  with 
condition  to  anfwer  and  pay  whatever  fum  fhall 
be  recovered  by  him  or  them  on  fuch  procefs, 
there  fliall  be  an  immediate  difcharge  of  fuch 
vefl'el :  Provided,  That  nothing  herein  con- 
tained fhall  prevent  any  fifherman  from  having 
his  attion  at  common  law,  for  his  Ihare  or  fhares 
of  fifh,  or  the  proceeds  thereof  as  aforefaid. 

Drawback  Scc.  6.  And bc  it  further  enaded.  That  the 
fifli^&'^'^  drawback  heretofore  allov/ed  on  the  exporta- 
pealed,  and  tion  of  foreign    dried  and  pickled  fifh,   and 

other  foreign  faked  provifions,  be  and  the  fame 

is  hereby  repealed. 

^ec.j.  And  be  it  further  cnaftcd^Th^t  ihtmo- 

iTnV  there- iiies  which  fhall  remain  in  confequencs  of  the 

from  appro- abolition  of  the  allowance  on  the  exportation 

ray  allow-  ^f  the  dried  filh  of  the  United  States,  and  of 

ancesgrant-  the  drawback    on  foreign  dried  and  pickled 

c^bythis   £,^^  ^^^j  Qj.|^^^  foreign  faked  provifions,  be, 

and  the  fame  are  hereby  appropriated  to  the 

payment  of  the  allowances  granted  by  this  aft, 

and  in  cafe  the  monies  fo  appropriated  fhall  be 

inadequate,  the  deficiency  fhall  be  fuppHed  out 

of  any  monies  which  from   time  to  time  fhall 

be  in  the  treafury  of  the  United  States,   and 

not  otherwife  appropriated. 

Penalty  on  ^^^*  ^'  ^^  ^^  it  further  cTiaBed^  That  any 
fwcaring  pcrfon  who  fhall  declare  falfely  in  any  oath, 
faifeiy.  ^j.  affirm.atlon  required  by  this  aft,  being  duly 
convlfted  thereof  in  any  court  of  the  United 
States,  having  jurifdiftion  of  fuch  offence,  fhall 
fuffer  the  fame  penalties  as  are  provided  for 
falfe  fwearing  or  affirming,  by  the  aft  before- 
mentioned,  and  to  be  in  like  manner  fued  for, 
recovered  and  appropriated. 


(       37      ) 

Sec.  9.     And  be  it  further  enabled  ^  Tl^^t  this  Limltaticn. 
act  fhall  continue  and  be  in  force  for  the  term 
of  feven  years,  and  from  thence  to  the  end  of 
the  next  feflion  of  Congrefs,  and  no  longer. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the 

Hov.Jt  of  Rcprcfentativts. 
JOHN  ADAMS,  Vice-Prefident  of  the  United 
States,  and  Prejidcnt  of  the  Senate. 

Approved,  February  fixteenth,   1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States. 

CHAPTER     VII. 

..'/;  ACT  to  eJtaiUfathi  Post-Office  and  Post-Roads 
within  the  United  States. 

Sec.  I.  13  E  /■/  enabled  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of 
X5  Reprefentaiives  of  the  United  States 
of  America.,  in  Congrefs  affembled.  That  from  and  EfiabUfh- 
after  the  firfl  day  of  June  next,  the  following  ^^^l^  ^f?"^/ 
roads  be  eftabliflied  as  pofl-roads,  namely  :  ift  :une 
From  Wifcaflett  in  the  dift rift  of  Maine,  to  Sa-  ""'* 
vannah  in  Georgia,  by  the  following  route,  to 
wit;  Portland,  Portfmouth,  Newburyport,  Ipf- 
wich,  Salem,  Bofton,  Worcefter,  Springfield, 
Hartford,  Middletown,  New-Haven.  Stratford, 
Fairfield,  Norwalk,  Stamford,  New- York,  New- 
ark, Elizabethtown,  Woodbridge,  Brunfwick, 
Princeton,  Trenton,  Briitol,  Philadelphia, 
Cheder,  Wilmington,  Elkton,  Charleflown, 
Havre  de  Grace,  Hartford,  Baltimore,  Bla- 
denfburg,  Georgetown,  Alexandria,  Colchefler, 
Dumfries,  Frederickfburg,  Bowling-Green, 
Hanover  Court-houfe,  Richmond,  PeterilDurg, 
Halifax,  Tarborough,  Smithfield,  Fayetteville, 
Newbridge  over  Drowning  creek,  Cheraw 
Court-houfe,  Camden,  Stateiburg,  Columbia, 
Cambridge  and  Augufla  ;  and  from  thence  to 
Savanna,  and  from  Augufla  by  Wafliington 
•;a  Wilkes  County  to  Greenborough,  and  from.. 


(      38       ) 


Efiabiifh.    thence  by    the  great   falls   of  Ogechee   and 

ment  pc 
roads  af 
ift  June 


ment  pod-  George-town,    to  Augulla,  and  from   States- 
roads  after  i^^^.^  ^^   Charlcfton,   and  from  Charlefton  to 


next. 


Georgetown,  from  Charlefton  to  Savannah, 
and  from  Savannah,  by  Newport  bridge  to 
Sunbury  ;  and  alfo  from  Portfmouth  by  Exe- 
ter and  Concord,  to  Hanover  in  New-Hamp- 
lliire  ;  and  from  Salem  to  Marblehead,  and 
from  Salem  to  Glouceiler ;  and  from  Bofton, 
by  Providence,  Newport,  and  New-London,  to 
New-Haven,  and  from  Boiion,  through  Taun- 
ton, to  New-Bedford  ;  and  from  Taunton, 
through  Warren  and  Briilol,  to  Newport, 
and  from  Boflon,  by  Plymouth,  to  Barnflable  ; 
and  from  Springfield  in  the  ftate  of  MaiTachu- 
ietts,  to  Kinderhook  in  the  ftate  of  New-York, 
and  from  Springfield,  by  Northampton,  Brattle- 
borough,  and  Charleftown,  by  Windfor  in  Ver- 
mont, to  Hanover,  and  from  Plartford,  by 
Middletown,  to  New-London  ;  alfo  from  Hart- 
ford to  Norwich,  and  Providence  ;  and  from 
Providence  to  "Worcefter,  and  from  Philadel- 
phia, by  Lancafcer,  Yorktown,  Carlille,  Ship- 
penfburg,  Chamberfburg,  Bedford,  and  Greens- 
burg,  to  Pittfburg  ;  and  from  Philadelphia  to 
Bethlehem  ;  from  Bethlehem,  by  Reading  and 
Harriiburg,  to  Carlille,  and  from  Bethlehem, 
by  Eaflon,  Suilex  Court-rhoufe,  Gofnen,  Ward's 
Bridge,  and  Kingfton,  to  Rhlnebeck  ;  from 
Philadelphia,  by  Salem,  to  Bridgetown  ;  and 
from  Wilmington,  by  Warvvick,  Georgetown, 
Crofs-roads,  Cheftertown,  Cheller-mills,  and 
Eafton,  to  Vienna ;  and  from  Vienna,  by  Salis- 
bury, to  Snow-Hill ;  alfo  from  Wilmington, 
by  New-Caftle,  Cantweli's  Bridge  and  Duck- 
Creek,  to  Dover  ;  and  from  thence  by  Mil- 
ford,  Dagfborough,  Snow-Hill  and  Northamp, 
ton  Court-houfe,  to  Norfolk  in  Virginia  ;  and 
from  Baltimore  to  Annapolis,  Upper-Marlbo- 
rcugh,  Pifcatawa,  Port-Tobacco,  Allen's-Frefir, 


(      39       ) 

Newport,  and  Chaptico,   to  Leonard-Town ;  Eflabiiih- 
and  from  Richmond,  by  Wiliiamiburg,  York-  '"'•■"'  p°^- 
town    and   Hampton,  to  Norfolk;  and  from  Xjunc'^'^ 
Frederickfburg,  by  Port-royal  and  Tappaha-  n^t. 
nock,  to  Urbanna  ;  and  from  thence,  crolling 
Rappahanock,    and  proceeding  by  Northum- 
berland Court-houfe,   to    Kinfale  on  the  river 
Yeocomico,  thence  by  Weftmoreland  Court- 
houfe,    through  Leed'stown,  to  Fredericks- 
burg ;  and  from  Peterfburg,  by   Cabin-Point, 
Smithfield,   and  Suffolk,  to  Portfmouth,  and 
from  Suffolk,  to  Edenton,  and  by  Plymouth  to 
Wafhington ;  and  from  Wafliington  to  New- 
bern,  and  thence  to  Wilmington  ;    and  from 
Fayetteville,  by  Elizabethtown,  to  Wilming- 
ton ;  and  from  Halifax,  by  Warrington,  Plills- 
borough,  Salem,   to  Saliibury  ;  from  Halifax, 
byjBlunt's-ville,  Williamfton,  Daileys  to  Ply- 
mouth ;  and  from  Edenton,  by  Hertford,  Nix- 
onton,  Sawyer's-Ferry,  in  Camden  County,  to 
Indian  Town,  in  Currituck  County  ;  and  from 
New- York,  by  Albany,  Bennington,  Manchef- 
ter  and  Rutland,  to  Burlington,  on  Lake  Cham- 
plain  ;  and  from  Albany,  by  Sclieneftady,  to 
Connajorharrie  ;    from    New-York  to    Hart- 
ford,    through      Whiteplains,    North-Callle, 
Salem,     Poundridge,     Ridgefield,    Danburv, 
Newtown,  New-Milford,  Litchfield,  Harring- 
ton and  Farmington  ;  from  Newai:k  or  Eliza- 
bethtown,   by  Morriftown,   to  Sufiex  Court- 
houfe  ;  from  Woodbridge    to  Amboy  ;    from 
Alexandria,  by  Saliibury,  Leefburg,  Shepherd's 
town,  Martinlburg,  Winchefter,  Stevenlburg, 
Strafburg,  Woodffcck,  and  Rockingham  court- 
houfe,  to  Staunton  ;  and  from  Richmond,  by 
Columbia,   Charlottefville,  Staunton,  Lexing- 
ton,     Fincaftle,     Montgomery     Court-houfe, 
Wythe  Court-houfe,  Abingdon,  and  Kawkin's 
Court-houfe,  in   the    territory  South  of  the 
river  Ohio,   to  Danvills  in  Kentuckey ;  and 


{       40       ) 

from  Baltimore,  by  Fredericktown  and  Sharpf- 
barg,  to  tlagarilown  ;  and  from  thence  to 
Chamberfcvurg  :  Provided,  That  the  route,  by 
which  the  mails  are  at  prefent  conveyed,  ftiall 
in  no  cafe  be  altered,  without  the  confent  of 
the  contrafiors,  till  the  contrafts  made  by  the 
Pollmailer-General  fliall  be  determined. 

P.M. Gen.      Sec.  2.    And  be  it  further  enabled.    That  it 
niay  enter    fliall  and  may  be  lawful  for  the  Poftmader-Ge- 
tradsTr'    ^^^^^^   ^'^  cHter  iuto   contrafts,  for  a  term  not 
carrying      exceeding  eight  years,  for  extending  the  line 
Sieedt '°  ^^  pofts,  and  to  authorize  the  perfon  or  per- 
yeirs.         fons,   fo  contracting,    to  receive,    during  the 
continuance  of  fuch  contrad:,  according  to  the 
rates    by   this  a»St  eftabliflied,  all  the  poftage 
which  Ihali  arife  on   letters,  newfpapers  and 
packets,  conveyed  by  any  fuch  poft  ;  and  the 
roads,  therein  defignated,  fhall,  during  the  con- 
tinuance of  fuch  contract,  be  deemed  and  con- 
fidered   as    poft-roads,  within   the  terms  and 
proviiions  of  this  a£t :  Provided^  That  no  fuch 
contract  fnall  be   made,  to  the  diminution  of 
the  revenue  of  the  general  poft-office,  and  that 
a  duplicate  of  every  fuch  contract,  under  hand 
and  feal,  fiiall,  within  fixty  days,  after  the  exe- 
cution thereof,    be  lodged  in  the  office  of  the 
Comptroller  of  the  Treafury  of  the  United 
States. 
Gen.  poft-      Sec.  3,  And  be  it  further  enaded.  That  there 
o:[iceatfeat  f|iail  bc  eftabiifced,    at  the  feat  of  the  govern- 
govcrnmcnt  ^^^^^  ^^  ^^^   .^^.^^^  g^^^^^^  ^  general    poft- 
office.     And  there  Ihall  be  one  Poftmafter-Ge- 
neral,  who  fliall  have  authority  to  appoint  an 
affiftant,  and  deputy  poftmallers,  at  all  places 
where  fuch  fliall  be  found  neceffary.  And  he 
fnall  provide  for   carrying    the  mail    oi    the 
United  States,  by  ftage-carriages  or  horfes,  as 
he  may  judge  moft  expedient  ;  and  as  often  as 
he, having  regard  to  the  produdivenefs  thereof, 


(       41       ) 

as  well  as  other  circumflances,  fhall  think 
proper,  and  defray  the  expenfe  thereof,  with 
all  other  expenfes  arifing  on  the  collection  and 
mana<>-ement  of  the  revenue  of  the  poft-office. 
He  (hall  alfo  have  power  to  prefcribe  fuch 
regulations  to  the  deputy  poft-mallers,  and 
others  employed  under  him,  as  may  be  found 
neceflary,  and  to  fuperintend  the  buhnefs  of 
the  department,  in  all  the  duties  that  are,  or 
may  be  alTigned  to  it,  and  alfo  to  dircvTt  the 
route  or  road,  where  there  are  more  than  one, 
between  the  places  above  eflabliflied,  which 
route  or  road  lliall  be  confidered  as  the  poll- 
road. 

Sec.  4.    And  be  it  further  enaBcd^  That  the 
Poflmafter-General  Ihall,  once  in  three  months,  fjJJt'tj^ac- 
obtaln   from   his  deputies,  the  accounts   and  counts  q'rijr 
vouchers  of  their  receipts  and  expenditures, 
and  the  balances  due  thereon,  and  render  to 
the  Secretary  of  the  Treafury,  a  quarterly  ac- 
count of  all  the  receipts  and  expenditures  in 
the  faid  department,  to  be  adjuded  and  fettled, 
as  other  public  accounts,  and  fhail  pay,  quar- 
terly, into  the  treafury  of  the  United  States, 
the  balance  in  his  hands.     And  the  Poflmafter-         . , 
General,  and   his  affiilant,   the  deputy  poll- pci-runs  em- 
maiters,  and  fuch  as  they  may  employ  in  their  pW^'i  by 
offices,  fliall,  refpedlively,  before  they  enter  up-  ^'''^■' 
on  the  duties,  or  be  entitled  to  receive  the  emo- 
luments of  their  offices,  and  the  contra£lors  for 
carrying  the  mail,  and  their  agents  or  fervants, 
to  whom  the  mail  fhall  be  entrulled,  before 
they  commence  the  execution  of  faid  trufl, 
ihall,   refpcftively,  take  and  fubfcribe  before 
fome  juftice  of  the  peace,  the  following  oath  or 
affirmation,    and  caufe  a  certificate  thereof  to 
be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  Poflmafler-General.; 
"  I  do  fwear  (or  affirm  as  the  cafe  may  be)  that  to  take  oath. 
I  will  faithfully  perform  all  the  duties  re^juired 
F 


(        42        ) 

of  me,  and  abftain  from  every  thing  forbidden 
by  the  law  in  relation  to  the  eftablifhment  of 
pofl-offices  and  poft-roads  within  the  United 
States." 

Penalty  on      Sec.  5.  And  bc  it  farther  ena^ed^  That  if  any 
obftruding  perfon  fiiall  obftrucl  or  retard  the  paffage  of  the 
L^egi^gencf  ni^il,  or  of  any  horfe  or  carriage  carrying  the 
©ffcrrj-men  fame,  he  {hall,  upon  conviftion  for  every  fuch 
offence,  pay  a  fine  not  exceeding  one  hundred 
dollars.     And  if  any  ferryman  fliall,  by  wilful 
negligence,  or  refufal  to  tranfport  the  mail  a- 
crofs  any  ferry,  delay  the  fame,  he  fhall  forfeit, 
and  pay,  for  each  half  hour  that  the  fame  fhall 
be  fo  delayed,  a  fum  not  exceeding  ten  dollars. 
poftmafter       Stc.  6.  And  be  it  farther  enabled.  That  it  fhall 
General  to  be  the  duty  of  the  Poftmafter-General,  to  give 
pr'^^rus'to  public  notice  in  one  or  more  of  the  newfpapers 
making      publifhed  at  the  feat  of  government  of  the 
^coXlfml^  United  States,  and  in  one  or  more  of  the  news- 
die  mail,\  papers  publifhed  in  the  ftate  or  ftates  where  the 
contraQ:  is  to  be  performed,    for,  at  leafl,  fix 
weeks    before  the   entering  into  any  contrail 
for  the  conveyance  of  the  mail  that  fuch  con- 
tract is  intended  to  be  made,  and  the  day  on 
which  it  fhall  be  concluded  ;  defcribing  the 
places,  from  and  to  which  fuch  mail  is  to  be 
conveyed  ;  the  time  at  which  it  is  to  be  made 
up  ;  the  day  and  hour,  at  which  it  is  to  be  de- 
livered ;  and  the  penalty  or  penalties  for  non- 
performance  of  the  ftipuiations.      He  fhall, 
confraa  in  moreovcr,  within  thirty  days  after  the  making 
the  comp.  of  any  contraQ:,  lodge  the  fame,  together  with 
^Qs^^  ^  ^  '  the  propofals  which  he  fliall  have  received  ref- 
pecling  the  fame,    in  the  office  of  the  Comp- 
troller of  the  treafury  of  the  United  States. 

Dep.  p.  M.      ^^^-  7*  -^'^^  ^^  it  farther  enaded.  That  every 

to  keep  an  dcputy  poflmafler  fhall  keep  an  office  in  which 

office.        ^j-jg  Qj.  more  perfons  fhall  attend  at  fuch  houi'S 

as  the  Pollmafter-General  fliall  dired,  for  the 


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purpofe  of  performing  the  duties  thereof.  And 
all  letters  brou;;^'T-  'O  any  pod-office,  half  an 
hour  before  the  time  of  making  up  the  mail  at 
fuch  office,  fliall  be  forwarded  therein. 

Sec.  8.  And  belt  further  enabled  ^  That  from  Allowance 
and  after  the  paffing  of  this  a6t,  the  Poftmafter-  'o  p.  m.g. 
General  fhall  be  allowed,  for  his  fervices,  at  *^  ^  ^  ^'* 
the  rate  of   two  thoufand  dollars  per  annum, 
his  alliftant,  at  the  rate  of  one  thoufand  dol- 
lars per  annum,    to  be  paid,  quarterly,  out  of 
the  revenues  of  the  pofl-office  :  and  no  fees  or 
perquifites  fhall  be  received  by  either  of  them, 
on  account  of  the   duties  to  be  performed  in 
virtue  of  their  appointments. 

Sec.  9.  And  be  it  further  enacted..  That  from 
and  after  the  firft  day  of  June  next,  the  deputy  rates  of  loH- 
poftmafter  and  perfons  authorized  by  the  ^fj'^'jyf. 
Poftmafter-General,  fhall  demand  and  receive, 
for  the  poftage  and  conveyance  of  letters 
and  packets,  except  fuch  as  are  hereinafter 
excepted,  according  to  the  feveral  rates  and 
fums  following  :  For  the  poflage  of  every 
fmgle  letter,  to  or  from  any  place  by  land 
not  exceeding  thirty  miles,  fix  cents  ;  over 
thirty  miles,  and  not  exceeding  fixty,  eight 
cents  ;  over  fixty  miles,  and  not  exceeding 
one  hundred,  ten  cents  ;  over  one  hundred 
miles,  and  not  exceeding  one  hundred  and 
fifty,  twelve  cents  and  a  half;  over  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  miles,  and  not  exceeding  two 
hundred,  fifteen  cents  ;  over  two  hundred 
miles,  and  not  exceeding  two  hundred  and 
fifty,  feventeen  cents  ;  over  two  hundred  and 
fifty  miles,  and  not  exceeding  three  hundred 
and  fifty,  twenty  cents  ;  over  three  hundred 
and  fifty  miles,  and  not  exceeding  four  hun- 
dred and  fifty,  twenty-two  cents  ;  and  to  or 
from  any  place  by  land,  more  than  four 
hundred  and  fifty   miles,  twenty-five  cents  j 


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and  eviery  double  letter  ihall  pay  double  the 
faid  rates  ;  every  triple  letter,  triple  ;  every 
packet  weighing  one  ounce  avoirdupois,  to 
pay,  at  the  rate  of  four  fmgle  letters  for  each 
ounce,  and  in  that  proportion,  for  any  greater 
weight. 

Rates  of  Sec,  lo.  And  be  it  further  enadcd.  That  all 
letters  and  Jettcrs  and  packcts,  palling  by  fea  to  and  from 
paffing^  by  the  United  States,  or  from  one  port  to  another 
iea.  therein,    in  packet  boats  or  veffels,  the  pro- 

perty of,  or  provided  by  the  United  States, 
fhall  be  rated  and  charged,  as  follows  ;  For 
dvery  fmgle  letter,  eight  cents  ;  for  every  dou- 
ble letter,  fixteen  cents  ;  for  every  triple  letter 
or  packet,  twenty-four  cents  ;  for  every  letter 
or  packet  brought  into  the  United  States,  or 
carried  from  one  port  therein  to  another  by 
fea,  in  any  private  fliip  or  velTel,  four  cents,  if 
delivered  at  the  place  where  the  fame  fhall 
arrive  ;  and  if  directed  to  be  delivered  at  any 
other  place,  with  the  addition  of  the  like  pofl- 
age,  as  other  letters  are  made  fubjed  to  the 
payment  of  by  this  aft. 

Pen  It  '^'"^'^'  ^  ^ '    ■^'^'^  ^^  ^^  further  enacled.  That  if 

demanding  any  dcputy  poftmafler,  or  other  perfon  autho- 

or  receiving  yjzed  by  the  Poftmafler-General,  to  receive  the 

pXted    '  portages  of  letters,   fhall  fraudulently  demand 

portage,      or  receive  any  rate  of  poftage,  or  any  gratuity 

or  reward,  other  than  is  provided  by  this  aft 

for  the  poftage  of  letters  or  packets,  on  con- 

viftion  thereof,  he  fhall  forfeit  for  every  fuch 

offence,    one    hundred  dollars,    and    fliall  be 

rendered  incapable  of  holding  any  office  under 

the  United  States, 

Sec.  12.  Ajid  be  it  further  cna&ed.  That  no 
Duty  of  flilp  QY  veffel,  arriving  at  any  port  within  the 
^ffeifpre-^^-'^"^^^^^^^^'^^'^'  whcrc  apoft-officcis  effabliflied, 
vious  to  fliall  be  permitted  to  report,  make  entry  or 
L™^i;''  break  bulk,  till  the  mafter  or  commander  fliall 


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have  delivered  to  the  poftmafler,  all  letters  di* 
reeled  to  any  perfon  or  perfons  v.ithin  the 
United  States,  which,  under  his  care  or  within 
his  power,  fliall  be  brought  in  fuch  (hip  or  veffel, 
other  than  fuch  as  are  direded  to  the  owner  or 
confignee:  but  when  a  veffel  fhall  be  bound  to 
another  port,  than  that,  at  which  Ihe  may  enter, 
the  letters  belonging  to,  or  to  be  delivered  at 
the  faid  port  of  delivery,  fhall  not  be  delivered 
to  the  poftmafler  at  the  port  of  entry.  And  it 
Iliall  be  the  duty  of  the  coUedor  or  other  offi- 
cer of  the  port,  empowered  to  receive  entries 
of  fhips  or  veffels,  to  require  from  every  mailer 
or  commander  of  fuch  fiiip  or  vellel,  an  oath  or 
afiirmation,  purporting  that  he  has  delivered 
all  fuch  letters,  except  as  aforefaid. 

Sec.  1 3,    And  be  it  further  enaded.  That  the  ^^.^  ^^  ^ 
poftmafters  to  whom  fuch  letters  may  be  deli-  :^'.  on  re- 
vered, (hall  pay  to  the  mafter,  commander,  or  ^^^JP^  ^^^^^^^ 
other  perfon  delivering  the  fame,  except  the  foreign 
commanders  of  foreign  packets,  two  cents  for  packets,&c. 
every  fuch  letter  or  packet  ;  and  fnall  obtain 
from  the  perfon  delivering  the  fame,  a  certifi- 
cate   fpecifying    the    number    of  letters   and 
packets,  with  the  name  of  the  fhip  or    veffel, 
and  the   place  from  whence  fne  laft  failed  ; 
which  certificate,  together  with  a  receipt  for 
the  money,  fliall  be  with  his   half-yearly  ac- 
counts, tranfmitted  to  the  Poftmafter-General, 
who    fliall   credit  the  amount  thereof  to  the 
poftmafter  forwarding  the  fame. 

Sec.  1 4.    And  be  it  further  enacied.    That  if  p^n^ity  oh 
any  perfon,  other  than  the  Poftmafter-General,  perfons  of- 
or'his  deputies,  or  perfons  by  them  employed,  g,'|„ft^thi8 
fliall  take  up,  receive,  order,  difpatch,  convey,  a^i. 
carry  or  deliver  any  letter  or  letters,  packet 
or  packets,  other  than  newfpapers,  for  hire  or 
reward,  or  fhall  be  concerned  in  fetting  up  any 
foot  or  hovfe  poft,  waggon  or  other  carriage,  by 


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or  in  which  any  letter  or  packet  fhall  be  carried 
for  hire,  on  any  eftablifhed  pod-road,  or  any 
packet,  or  other  veflel  or  boat,  or  any  convey- 
ance whatever,  whereby  the  revenue  of  the  ge- 
neral pod-office  may  be  injured,  every  perfon, 
fo  offending,  iliall  forfeit,  for  every  fuch  offence, 
the  fum  of  two  hundred  dollars.  Provided,  That 
it  fliall  and  rnay  be  lawful  for  every  perfon  to 
fend  letters  or  packets  by  fpecial  meffenger. 

Deputies  to  ^^^*  ^5*  "^^^  ^^  it  further  enaBed,  That  the 
account  deputy  podmaders  or  agents  of  the  Podmader- 
g"  fo*^  b^e  G^i^s^^U  ^"^  d"^y  account  and  anfwer  to  him, 
letterl  ^  for  all  bye  or  way-letters,  and  diall  fpecify  the 
number  and  rates  in  the  pod  bill.  And  if  any 
deputy  podmader  or  agent  fliall  negleft  fo  to 
^     ,,     „  account,  he  or  they  fo   oftendin^,   fliall,  on 

Penalty    on  '  r     r      r  •         r  r      i         r 

r-cgiccting,  conviclion  thcreot,  torieit,  tor  every  lucn  or- 
offence,  a  fum  not  exceeding  one  hundred 
dollars. 

Sec.  1 6.    And  be  it  further  e7iaBed,  That  if 

detaining,    ^j^„  perfon.    employed  in  any  of  the  depart- 

(delavmg.or         •'     ^        r       i  i  i^       rr  /I      n  i 

fccreting  mcnts  ot  the  general  polt-omce,  mail  unlaw- 
ktters,  &c.  f^^y  detain,  delay,  or  open,  any  letter,  packet, 
bag  or  mail  of  letters,  with  which  he  iTiall  be 
entruded,  or  which  fiiall  have  come  to  his 
poffeffion,  and  which  are  intended  to  be  convey- 
ed by  pod  :  Or  if  any  fuch  perfon  fliall  fecrete, 
embezzle  or  dedroy  any  letter  or  packet,  en- 
truded to  him,  as  aforefaid,  and  which  fliall  not 
contain  any  fecurity  for,  or  affurance  relating 
to  money,  as  herein  after  defcribed,  every  fuch 
offender,  being  thereof  duly  convifted,  fliall, 
for  every  fuch  offence,  be  hned  not  exceeding 
three  hundred  dollars,  or  imprifoned  not  ex- 
ceeding fix  months,  or  both,  according  to  the 
circumdances  and  aggravations  of  the  offence. 
And  if  any  perfon,  employed  as  aforefaid,  fliall 
fecrete,  embezzle  or  dedroy,  any  letter,  packet, 
bag,  or  mail  of  letters,  with  which  he  fliall  be 


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cntrulled,  or  which  Ihall  have  come  to  his 
pofleflion,  and  are  intended  to  be  conveyed  by 
poft,  containing  any  bank  note,  or  hunk  poft- 
bill,  bill  of  exchange,  warrant  of  ihe  Treafury 
of  the  United  States,  note  of  aflignment  of 
Hock  in  the  funds,  letters  of  attorney  for  re- 
ceiving annuities  or  dividends,  or  for  felHng 
flock  in  the  funds,  or  for  receiving  the  in- 
terefc  thereof,  or  any  letter  of  credit,  or  note 
for,  or  relating  to  the  payment  of  money,  or 
other  bond  or  warrant,  draft,  bill,  or  promif- 
fory  note  whatfoever,  for  the  payment  of 
money  ;  or  if  any  fuch  perfon,  employed  as 
aforefaid,  (hall  Heal  or  take  any  of  the  f^une 
out  of  any  letter,  packet,  bag  or  mail  of  let- 
ters, that  fhall  come  to  his  polTellion,  he  fiiall, 
on  convidion,  for  any  fuch  offence,  fuffer  death. 
And  if  any  perfon,  who  fliall  have  taken  charge 
of  the  mail  of  the  United  States,  fhall  quit  or 
defert  the  fame,  before  his  arrival  at  the  next 
pofl-of!ice,  every  fuch  perfon,  fo  offending, 
fhall  forfeit  and  pay  a  fum,  not  exceeding  five 
hundred  dollars,  for  every  fuch  offence.  And 
if  any  perfon,  concerned  in  carrying  the  mail 
of  the  United  States,  fhall  coUeci:,  receive  or 
carry  any  letter  or  packet,  or  fliall  caufe  or  pro- 
cure the  fame  to  be  done,  contrary  to  this  a61;, 
every  fuch  offender  fhall  forfeit  and  pay,  for 
every  fuch  offence,  a  fum  not  exceeding  fifty 
dollars. 

Sec.  1 7.    Jnd  be  it  further  enaEled^  That  if  Penaity  m 
any  perfon  or  perfons  fhall  rob  any  carrier  ofP^''^''"'''"'*- 
the  mail  of  the  United  States,  of  fuch  mail,  or  mail'"^ 
if  any  perfon  fliall  rob  the  mail,  in  which  let- 
ters are  fent  to  be  conveyed  by  poll,  of  any 
letter  or  packet,  or  fhall  fleal  fuch  mail,  or  fliall 
fleal  and  take  from  or  out  of  the  fame,  or  from 
or  out  of  any  pofl-office,  any  letter  or  packet, 
fuch  offender  or  offenders  fliall,  on  convictiou 
thereof,  fuffer  death. 


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Deputies  to  S^c.  18,  And  be  it  further  enaded.  That  the 
pubiifti  eve-  dcputy  poftmaftcrs  fhall,  refpe^lively,  publifti 
fiift^net- *^'^  ^^^^  expiration  of  every  three  months,  in 
tersthenon  onc  of  the  newfpapcrs  publilhed  at,  or  neareft 
band,  &c.  ^^^  place  of  his  refidence,  for  three  fucceffive 
weeks,  a  lift  of  all  the  letters  then  remaining 
in  their  refpeftive  offices  ;  and  at  the  expira- 
tion of  the  next  three  months,  fhall  fend  fuch- 
of  the  faid  letters  as  then  remaui  on  hand,  as 
dead  letters,  to  the  general  poft-ofHce,  where 
the  fame  fliall  be  opened  and  infpeded  ;  and 
if  any  valuable  papers  or  matter  of  confe- 
quence,  fliall  be  found  therein,  it  fhall  be  the 
duty  of  the  Poftmafter-General,  to  caufe  a  def- 
criptive  lift  thereof  to  be  inferted  in  one  of  the 
newfpapers,  publiflied  at  the  place  mofl  conve- 
nient to  where  the  owner  may  be  fuppofed  to 
refide,  if  within  the  United  States,  and  fuch 
letter  and  the  contents  fhall  be  preferved,  to 
be  delivered  to  the  perfon,  to  whom  the  fame 
fliall  be  addreiTed,  upon  payment  of  the  poll- 
age,  and  the  expenfe  of  publication. 

Sec.  19.  And  be  it  further  enabled.  That  the 
^^'^"^io^te  fc>llovv^ing  letters  and  packets,  and  no  other, 
conveyed  fliall  be  rcccivcd  and  conveyed  by  poft,  free  of 
free  of  poll-  poftagc,  undcr  fuch  reftriftions,  as  are  herein 
^^^'  after  provided  ;  that  is  to  fay  ;  All  letters  and 

packets  to  or  from  the  Prefident  or  Vice-Prefi'- 
dent  of  the  United  States,  and  all  letters  and 
packets,  not  exceeding  tvvo  ounces  in  weight, 
to  or  from  any  member  of  the  Senate  or  Houfe 
of  Reprefentatives,  the  Secretary  of  the  Senate 
or  Clerk  of  the  Houfe  of  Reprefentatives, 
during  their  aduai  attendance  in  any  feffion 
of  Congrefs,  and  twenty  days  after  fuch  fef- 
fion. All  letters  to  and  from  the  Secretary  of 
the  Treafury,  and  his  affiftant,  Comptroller, 
Regifler,  and  Auditor  of  the  Treafury,  the 
Treafurer,  the  Secretary  of  State,  the  Secre- 


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tary  at  War,  the  Commiirioners  for  fettling  the  certain  let- 
accounts  between  the  United  States  and  indi-  ters  free  of 
vidual  ftates,  the  Poilmafter-General  and  his  ^"^"^"' 
afiiilant :  Provided,  I'hat  no  perfon  {hall  frank 
or  enclofe  any  letter  or  packet,  other  than  his 
own  ;    but  any  public   letter  or  packet  from 
the  department  of  the  Treafury  may  be  franked 
by  the  Secretary  of  the  Treafury,  or  the  allilf- 
ant  Secretary,  or  by  the  Comptroller,  Regifter, 
Auditor  or  Treafurer  ;   and  that  each  perfon 
before  named  ihall  deliver  to    the  poft-office 
every  letter  or  packet  enclofed  to  him,  which 
may  be  directed  to  any  other  perfon,  noting 
the  place,    from  v/hence  it  came  by  pod,   and 
the  ufuai  poftage  fliall  be  charged  thereon. 

Sec.  20.  And  be  it  further  enaded.  That  if  Penalty  on 
any  perfon  fliall  counterfeit  the  handwriting  ^^^"^''he"'* 
of  any  other  perfon,  in  order  to  evade  the  pay-  franking  to 
ment  of  poftage  ;  fuch  perfon  or  perfons,  io  ^^^^^  p*^^* 
offending,  and  being  thereof  duly  convided,  **^* 
fnall  forfeit  and  pay,  for  every  fuch  offence,  the 
fum  of  one  hundred  dollars. 

Sec.  2 1 .     And  be  it  further  enacied.  That  Privilege  of 
every    printer  of  newfpapers   may  fend    one  "^^^.y"  P""'"' 
paper  to  each  and  every  other  printer  of  news- 
papers within  the  United  States,  free  of  poft- 
age, under  fuch  regulations,  as  the  Poftmafter- 
Generai  fliall  provide. 

Sec.  22.    And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  all  Newfpapers 
newfpapers,  conveyed    in  the    mail,    (hall  be  i!^^ up*  for 
under  a  cover  open  at  one  end,  carried  in  fe-  the  mail, 
parate   bags   from    the  letters,    and   charged 
with  the  payment  of  one  cent,  for  any  diftance 
not  more  than  one  hundred    miles,  and    one 
cent  and  a  half  for  any  greater  diftance  :  And 
it  ilrall  be  the  duty  of  the  Poftmafter-Generai 
and  his  deputy,  to  keep  a  feparate  account  for 
the   newfpapers,  and  the   deputy  poftmafters 
G 


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fhall  receive  fifty  per  cent  on  the  poflage  of  all 
newfpapers  :  And  if  any  other  matter  or  thing- 
be  enclofed  in  fuch  papers,    the  whole  packet 
Ihall  be  charged,  agreeably  to  the  rates  efta- 
bHflied  by  this  ad,  for  letters  or  packets.     And 
if  any  of  the  perfons  employed  in  any  depart- 
ment of  the  poft-office,  fliall  unlawfully  detain, 
delay,    embezzle  or  deftroy    any   newfpaper, 
with  which  he  fhall  be  entrufted,  fuch  offend- 
ers, for  every  fuch  offence,  fhall  forfeit  a  fum, 
not  exceeding  fifty  dollars  :    Provided^    That 
P.M.  Gen.  the   Poflmafler-General,  in  any  contraQ:,  he 
comrador"  "^^Y  ei'-^^'*  i^^^^j  for  the  conveyance  of  the  mail, 
to  carry      may  autlioHze  the  perfon,  with  whom   fuch 
and^^^^^"'  co^^traft  is  made,  to  carry  newfpapers,   other 
than  thofe  conveyed  in  the  mail. 

allow  fuch      Sec.  23.  And  be  it  further  enaded.  That  the 
commiffion  Poflmafter-Gencral  be,  and  he  is  hereby  autho- 
Is  heCay  ^"ized  to  allow  to  the  deputy  poflmafters  ref- 
deem  ade-  pe6lively,    fucli    commiffion    on    the    monies 
1^0^10  ex-  arifmg  from  the  poftage  of  letters  and  packets, 
ceed,  &c.    as  he  fhall  think  adequate  to  their  refpeftive  fer- 
vices  :  Provided,  That  the  faid  commiffion  fhall 
not  exceed  forty  per  cent  to  any  deputy,  whofe 
compenfation  thereby  fhall  not  exceed  fifty  dol- 
lars, nor  thirty  per  cent  to  any  deputy,  whofe 
compenfation    thereby  fhall    not  exceed    one 
hundred  dollars,  nor  twenty  per  cent  to  any 
other  deputy,  except  the  poftmafter  at  the  port, 
where  the  European  packets  do,  or  fhall  fleadily 
arrive :     to    whom  fuch   farther  allowance,  in 
addition  to  the  emoluments  of  his  office,  fhall 
be  made,  as  the  Poflmafler-General  fhall  deem 
a  reafonable  compenfation  for  his  extra-fervices 
in  the  receipt  and  difpatch    of  letters,  origi- 
nally   received  into  his   office,  from  on  board 
fuch  packets,  and  by  him  forwarded  to  other 
^goo^dok  offices  :    And  provided  alfo.  That  the  compen- 
per  annum.' fations   aforcfaid  fhall    not  exceed    eighteen 


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hundred  dollars  per  annum  to  any  one  pofl- 
mafter  for  all  fervices  by  him  rendered. 

Sec.  24.    And  be  it  further  enaded^  That  if  p.  M.Gcn. 
any  deputy  poftmafter  or  other  perfon,  autho-  to  rro/ecme 

]         r      J    r  ^  r'  deputies  11c- 

rized  to  receive    the    poltage    or  letters    and  gieding  to 
packets,  fliall  neglect  or  refufe  to  render   his  ^"^"'^  luar- 
accounts,  and  pay  over  to  the  Poftma(ler-Ge-  penLy^"on 
neral,  the  balance  by  him  due,   at   the  end  of  ^'*  negk^^j 
every  three  months,  it  fhall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Poflmafter-General,  to  caufe  a  fuit  to  be  com- 
menced   againft    the  perfon  or  perfons  fo  nc- 
glecling  or  refufmg :    And  if  the  Poflmafter 
General  fhall  not  caufe  fuch  fuit   to  be  com- 
menced within  three  months,  from  the  end  of 
every   fuch    three    months,    the  balances  due 
from    every  fuch  delinquent  fhall  be  charged 
to,     and    recoverable    from    the   Poftmafler- 
General. 

Sec.  25.    Arid  be  it  further  enaded.  That   all  Appropria- 
pecuniary  penalties   and  forfeitures,    incurred  JJ°|";g°^PJ~ 
under  this  acl,  fhall  be,  one  half  for  the  ufe  of  der  this  ail. 
the  perfon  or  perfons  informing  and  profecu- 
ting  for  the  fame,  the  other  half  to  the  ufe  of 
the  United  States. 

Sec.  26.    Ajid  be  it  further  enacted.  That  It  p.m.  Gen. 
ftiall  be  lawful  for  the  Poflmafter-General,  to  '"^^"}^J^ 
make  provifion,  where  it  may  be  neceflary,  for  for  receipt 
the  receipt  of  all  letters  and  packets  intended  ^^    ^^"ers 
to  be  conveyed  by  any  fhip  or  veffel,  beyond  cdvcd'^  "iby 
fea,  or  from  any  port  of  the  United  States  to  fe^. 
another  port  therein  ;    and   the  letters  fo  re- 
ceived fhall  be  formed  into  a  mail,  fealed  up, 
and  directed  to  the  poftmafter  of  the  port  to 
which  fuch  fhip  or  veflel  fhall  be  bound.  And 
for  every  letter  or  packet  fo  received,  there 
fhall  be  paid,   at  the  time  of  it's  reception,  a 
poftage  of  one  cent.     And  the  Poftmafter-Ge- 
neral  may  make  arrangements  with  the  poft- 


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mailers  in  any  foreign  country  for  the  reci- 
procal receipt  and  delivery  of  letters  and  pack- 
ets, through  the  poll-offices. 

poftmafters       Scc.  27.  And  he  it  furthcr  cnaBcd^    That  the 
&c.  e::cnipt  (Jeputv  pollmallers,   and  the  perfons  employed 

frommilitia   .     \     -^    ^     ,,  .  r  1  •,     n     11  1        ^      -' 

duty.  in  the  traniportation  or  the  mail,  Ihall  be  exempt 

from  miUtia  duties,  or  any  fine  or  penalty  for 
negleQ;  thereof. 

Appropria-        Scc.  28.  And  he  it  further  cnaBcd^  That  all 
tionsoffur-  ^j^g  furplus-revcnuc  of  the  general  poll-office, 

plusie venue       i  •    1       n     n   i  •  i        r    a 

of  gen.  poft-  which  Ihall  have  accrued,  previous  to  the  nnt 
office.  (Jay  Qf  jm^g  next,  not  heretofore  appropriated, 
be,  and  the  fame  is  hereby  appropriated  to- 
wards defraying  any  deficiency  which  may 
arife  in  the  revenue  of  the  faid  department  for 
the  year  next  enfuing. 

Former  ads  Scc.  29.  And  he  it  further  end  fied,  'I\i2X.  iht 
continued  a£l  paffcd  the  lall  feffion  of  Congrefs,  inti- 
tiu  iftjune.  tuled,  "  An  ad  to  continue  in  force,  for  a 
limited  time,  an  acl  intituled,  "  An  ad  for  the 
temporary  ellablilhment  of  the  poll-office,"  be, 
and  the  fame  is  hereby  continued  in  full  force, 
until  the  firfl  day  of  June  next,  and  no 
longer. 

Limitation       ^^^'  3°*  And  he  it  further  enacted^  That  this 
of  this  afl,  act  ffiail  be  jn  force  for  the  term  of  two  years^ 

from  the  faid  firfl  day  of  June  next,  and  no 

longer. 

JON  A:  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the  Houfe 
of  Rcprefcntatives. 

JOHN  ADAMS,  Vice- Prefi dent  of  theUnite^ 
States,  and  Prejident  of  the  Senate, 

Approved,  February  the  twentieth,    1792. 

G'^:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefidcnt  oj  the  United  States, 


(       53       ) 
CHAPTER     VIII. 

A)2  ACT  relative  to  the  EleElion  of  a  Presiden't  avd 
Vic  t-PRESiDENT  of  the  United  States,  and  dedarrng 
the  OJiur  whojliall  aci  as  Prefident  in  cafe  of  Vacancies 
in  the  ojices  both  of  Prejident  and  Vice- Prefident, 

Sec.    I.    "O  E    //   enabled  by    the  Senate  and 

X3  liG^fs    of    Reprefentatives    of  the      ^^ 
United  States  of  America^    in  Congrefs  ajfembled^  to   appoint 
That  except  in  cafe  of  an  eledion  of  a  Prefident  ^J-^^^"^"  '^^j 
and  Vice-Prefident  of  the  United  States,  prior  pr''efidcnt  & 
to  the  ordinary  period  as  hereinafter  fpecihed,  vice-piefi- 
ele£tors  fhali  be  appointed  in  each  (late  for  the    ^"'' 
election  of  a  Prefident   and    Vicc-Prefideiit  of 
the  United  States,  within  thirty-four  days  pre- 
ceding the  firfl  Wednefday  in  December,  one 
thoufand  feven  hundred  and  ninety-two,  and 
within  thirty-four  days  preceding  the  firft  Wed- 
nefday in  December  in  every  fourth  year  fuc- 
ceeding  the  lall  election,  which  eleftors  (hall  be 
equal  to  the  number  of  Senators  and  Reprefen- 
tatives,  to  which  the  fcveral  (fates  may  by  law 
be  entitled  at  the  time,  when  the  Prefident  and 
Vice-Prefident,  thus  to  be  chofen,  fhould  come 
into  office  :     Provided  always,,  That  where  no 
apportionment    of    Reprefentatives  fhall  have 
been  made  after  any  enumeration,  at  the  time 
of  chufing  electors,  then  the  number  of  electors 
fnall  be  according  to  the  exiiling  apportionment 
of  Senators  and  Reprefentatives. 

Sec.  2.    And  be  it  further  enaded.   That  the  when  to 
electors  (hall  meet  and  give  their  votes  on  the  '"'='''    """^ 
faid  firft  Wednefday  in  December,  at  fuch  place 
in  each  (late  as  (hall  be  directed,  by  the  legida- 
ture  thereof;  and  the  electors  in  each  (late  (liall 
make  and  fign  three  certificates  of  all  the  votes  crniSes^ 
by  them  given,  and  (hall  leal    up   the  fame  of  all  the 
certifying  on  each  that  a  lift  of  the  votes  of  ^°*"s»^*'"' 
fuch  (late  for  Prefident  and  Vice-Prefident  is  how  to  be 
contained  therein  and  (hall  by  writing  under  ^'^^''^''^  "*• 


(       54       ) 

their  hands,  or  under  the  hands  of  a  majority 
of  them,  appoint  a  perfon  to  take  charge  of 
and  deliver  to  the  Prefident  of  the  Senate,  at 
the  feat  of  government  before  the  firft  Wed- 
nefday  in  January  then  next  enfuing,  one  of  the 
faid  certificates,  and  the  faid  electors  fhail 
forthwith  forward  by  the  poft-office  to  the  Pre- 
fident of  the  Senate,  at  the  feat  of  government, 
one  other  of  the  faid  certificates,  and  fliall 
forthwith  caufe  the  other  of  the  faid  certifi- 
cates, to  be  dehvered  to  the  judge  of  that  diftri*^ 
in  which  the  faid  eiedors  fliall  aflemble. 

Duty  of  ex-  Sec.  3.  And  be  it  furthe}- enacted.  That  the 
each'^ftate°-  ^^^cutive  authority  of  each  ftate  fhall  caufe 
'  three  Hits  of  the  names  of  the  eleftors  of  fuch 
ftate  to  be  made  and  certified  and  to  be  deli- 
vered to  the  eleftors  on  or  before  the  faid  firft 
Wednefday  in  December  and  the  faid  electors 
ftiall  annex  one  of  the  faid  lifts  to  each  of  the 
lifts  of  their  votes. 

of  Sec.  of       Sec.  4.    And  be  it  further  enabled.  That  if  a 
State  on     \^^  of  votcs,  from  any  ftate  ftiall  not  have  been 
noD-receip^  received  at  the  feat  of  government  on  the  faid 
votes.         firft  Wednefday  in  January  that  then  the  Secre- 
tary of  State  ftiall  fend  a  fpecial  meffenger  to 
the  diftriO:  judge  in  whofe  cuftody  fuch  lift 
ftiall   have    been    lodged,   who  fliall  forthwith 
tranfmit  the  fame  to  the  feat  of  government. 

CoD<^refsto        Sec.  5.     And  he  it  further  enabled.    That 
beinfeffion  Congrefs    fliall    be   in  felfion  on  the   fecond 
ndday^ln  Wednefday  in  February,    one  thoufand  feven 
Feb.  1793.  hundred  and  ninety-three,  and  on  the  fecond 
Wednefday  in  February  fucceeding  every  meet- 
ing of  the  eleftors  and  the  faid  certificates,    or 
fo  many  of  them  as  fhall  have  been  received, 
fhall  then  be  opened,   the  votes  counted,  and 
the  perfons  who  fhall  fill  the  offices  of  Prefi- 
dent and  Vice-Prefidcnt  afcertained   and  de- 
clared, agreeably  to  the  Conftitution. 


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Sec.  6.  Jndbeit/m-t/jcrcm^ed,Th^tmc:ik^^2n.tnt 
there  (hall  be  noPrefideiit  of  the  Senate  at  the  withiiOst^ 
Teat  ot  governmeRt  on  the  arrival  of  the  perfons  ^'""' 
entrufted  with  the  lilts  of  the  votes  of  the  elec- 
tors, then  fuch  perfons  fliall  deliver  the  lifts 
of  votes  in  their  cuftody  into    the  otHce  of  the 
Secretary  of  State,    to  be  fafely  kept  and  deli- 
vered over  as  foon  as  may  be,  to  the  Prefident 
of  the  Senate. 

Sec.  7.  And  be  it  further  enacled.  That  the  f^^^^^''"" 
perfons  appointed  by  the  eleftors  to  deliver  the 
lifts  of  votes  to  the  Prefident  of  the  Senate, 
iball  be  allowed  on  the  delivery  of  the  faid  lifts 
twenty-five  cents  for  every  mile  of  the  efti- 
mated  diftance  by  the  moft  ufual  road,  from 
the  place  of  meeting  of  the  electors,  to  the  feat 
of  government  of  the  United  States. 

Sec.  8.    Jnd  be  it  further  enaaed.  That  if  P^"^i'y  «" 

n  •  111-  1  j^  their  iic- 

any  perlon  appointed  to  dehver  the  votes  oigieaaduty 

the  eledors  to   the   Prefident  of  the  Senate, 

fhall  after  accepting  of  his  appointment  neglect 

to  perform  the  fervices  required  of  him  by  this 

■act,  he  Ihall  forfeit  the  fum  of  one  thoufand 

dollars. 

Sec.  9.     And  be  it  further  enaded.  That  in  fXJf;"Jh 
cafe  of  removal,  death,  refignation  or  inabihty  &c.ofpre- 
both  of  the  Prefident  and  Vice-Prefident  of  the  C'^^"'  ^"^ 
United  States  the  Prefident  of  the  Senate  pro 
tempore  and  in  cafe  there  ftiall  be  no  Prefident 
of  the  Senate,  then  the  Speaker  of  the  Houfe 
of  Reprefentatives,  for  the  time  being  ftiall  act 
as  Prefident  of  the  United  States    until    the 
difability  be  removed  or  a  Prefident  fliall  be 
elected. 

Sec.  10.    And  be  it  further  cnafled.     That  duty  of  s. 
whenever    the    offices    of  Prefident  and  Vice- "^^^f^^^.^^^;* 
Prefident  ftiall  both  become  vacant,  the  Secre- 
tary of  State  ftiall  forthwith  caufe  a  notification 


(       56      ) 

Duty  of  s  c.  thereof  to  be  made  to  the  executive  of  every 
of  State, &c.  (i-ate,  and  fhall  alfo  caufe  the  fame  to  be  pu- 
blifhedin  at  lead  one  of  the  newfpapers  prmted 
in  each  ftate,  fpecifying  that  eledors  of  the 
Prefident  of  the  United  States  (liall  be  appoint- 
ed or  chofen  in  the  feveral  jflates  within  thirty- 
four  days  preceding  the  firfl  Wednefday  in  De- 
cember then  next  enfuing  :  Provided,  There 
Ihall  be  the  fpace  of  two  months  between  the 
dateof  fuch  notification  and  the  faid  hrft  Wed- 
nefday in  December  but  if  there  fhall  not  be 
the  fpace  of  two  months  between  the  date  of 
fuch  notification  and  the  firft  Wednefday  in 
December  and  if  the  term^  for  which  the  Pre- 
fident and  Vice-Prefident  laft  in  office  were 
elefted  fhall  not  expire  on  the  third  day  of 
March  next  enfuing  then  the  Secretary  of 
State  fliall  fpecify  in  the  notification  that  the 
eledors  fhall  be  appointed  or  chofen  within 
thirty-four  days  preceding  the  firfl  Wednesday 
in  December  in  the  year  next  enfuing  within 
which  time  the  eledors  fhall  accordingly  be 
appointed  or  chofen,  and  the  eledlors  fhall 
meet  and  give  their  votes  on  the  faid  firfl 
Wednefday  in  December  and  the  proceedings 
and  duties  of  the  faid  electors  and  others  fhall 
be  purfuant  to  the  direftions  prescribed  in 
this  acl. 

^rfuft""°/  Sec.  II.  And  be  it  further  enaded.  That  the 
of  office  of  only  evidence  of  a  refufal  to  accept,  or  of  a 
prefident,  rcfignation  of  the  office  of  Prefident  or  Vice- 
Prefident,  ihall  be  an  inllrument  in  writing  de- 
claring the  fame  and  fubicribed  by  the  perfon 
refufmg  to  accept  or  refigning  as  the  cafe 
rriay  be  and  delivered  into  the  office  of  the 
SecrctT.  y  of  State. 


When  the  Scc.  12.  Atid  1)6  it  furlher  enacled.  That  the 
yea?s  fifaif*  ^crm  of  four  yeais  fo'r  v/hich  a  Prefident  and 
commence.  Vice-PrefidcHt  fhall  be  elected  fliall  in  all  cafes 


(      57      ) 

commence  on  the  fourth  day  of  March  next 
fucceeding  the  day  on  which  the  votes  of  the 
electors  fliall  have  been  given. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  tht 
Houfc  of  Reprefaitativcs. 

JOHN  ADAMS,  Vice-Prefident  of  the  United 
States,  and  Prefideni  of  the  Senate. 

Approved,  March  the  firft,    1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefideni  of  the  United  Stales. 


CHAPTER     IX. 

An  ACT  for  making  farther  and  more  effcBual  Provifion 
for  the  ProtcElion  of  the  Frontiers  of  the  United  States. 

Sec.  I.    ¥3  E  //  enaBed  by  the  Senate  and  Hoiife 
_i3    of   Reprefentatives  of  the  United 
States  of  America^  in  Congrefs  affimbled.  That 
the  batcalion  of  artillery  now  in  fervice  be  com-  Battalion  of 
pleted  according  to  the  eflabhfliment,  and  that  artillery  & 
the  two  regiments  of  infantry  now  in  fervice,  be  ^  i^^^^^'  "^^ 
completed  to  the  number  of  nine  hundred  and  be  com- 
fixty   non-commifiioned  officers,  privates  and  p'^"^'^  • 
muficians  each. 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  there  3  gjaitionai 
lliall  be  raifed  for  a  term  not  exceeding  three  regiment* 
years,  three  additional  regiments,  each  of"'^ 
which,  exclufively  of  the  commiffioned  officers, 
fhall  confifl  of  nine  hundred  and  fixty  non- 
commiffioned  officers,  privates  and  muficians ; 
and  that  one  of  the  faid  regiments  be  organ- 
ized in  the  following  manner,  that  is  to  fay,  two 
battalions  of  infantry,  each  of  which,  exclu- 
fively of  the  commiffioned  officers,  (liall  confift 
of  three  hundred  and  twenty  non-com.miffioned 
officers,  privates  and  muficians  ;  and  one  fqua- 
dron  of  light  dragoons  which,  exclufively  of 
the  cGmmiifioned  officers,  fnall  confifl:  of  three 
hundred  and  twenty  non-commiffioned  officers, 
privates  and  muficians ;  and  that  it  /hall  be  a 
H 


(       58      ) 

condition  in  the  inliftment  of  the  faid  dragoons, 
to  ferve  as  difmounted  dragoons,  whenever  they 
SS°^^^"  fhall  be  ordered  thereto  :  That  the  organization 
of  the  faid  fquadron  of  light  dragoons  fhall  be, 
as  follows,  to  wit ;  one  major,  one  adjutant, 
one  quarter  mafter,  one  furgeon's  mate,  and 
four  troops,  each  of  which  fhall  confift  of  one 
captain,  one  lieutenant,  one  cornet,  four  fer- 
jeants,  four  corporals,  one  farrier,  one  faddler, 
one  trumpeter  and  fixty-nine  dragoons ;  and 
the  Prefident  may  arm  the  faid  troops,  as  he 
fhall  think  proper  : 

Sec.  3.  Provided  always^  and  be  it  further 
and  b.y  enabled.  That  it  fhall  be  lawful  for  the  Prefi- 
whom.  dent  of  the  United  States  to  organize  the  faid 
five  regiments  of  infantry,  and  the  faid  corps 
of  horfe  and  artillery,  as  he  fliall  judge  expe- 
dient, diminifhing  the  number  of  corps,  or 
taking  from  one  corps  and  adding  to  another, 
as  fliail  appear  to  him  proper,  fo  that  the  whole 
number  of  officers  and  men  lliall  not  exceed  the 
limits  above  prefcribed  : — Provided,  That  the 
faid  three  regiments  fhall  be  difcharged  as  foon 
as  the  United  States  fhall  be  at  peace  with  the 
Indian  tribes. 

term  of  en-       Sec.  4.  And  hc  it  fufiher  e?2aded.    That  the 
lament.      non-commifTioncd  officers,    privates  and  mufi- 
cians  of  the  faid  three  regiments,  fliall  be  in- 
lifted  for  the  term  of  three  years,  unlefs  pre- 
vioufly  difcharged. 

bounty  al-  ^^^'  5"  And  be  it  further  enaded,  Tli^X  QWtxy 
lowed.  recruit  who  fhall  be  inliiled  by  virtue  of  this 
aft,  fhall  receive  eight  dollars  bounty,  and 
that  the  fame  fliall  be  made  up  to  the  non-com- 
miffioned  officers,  privates  and  muficians  now 
in  fervice,  who  have  inlifled  for  three  years, 
fmce  the  pafling  of  the  aft  intituled  "  An  aft 
for  regulating  the  military  eltabiifhment  of  the 
Ujiited  Sfates, 


(      59       ) 

Sec.  6.  And  be  it  further  enroled.  That  the  Allowance 
commiflioned  officers,  who  fhall  be  employed  ^^"'^^"^""'"^ 
to  recruit  for  the  ellablifliment,  fhall  be  entitled  °  "''"' 
to  receive,  for  every  recruit,  duly  inlifted  and 
muftered,  two  dollars. 

Sec.  7  And  be  it  further  enabled.  That  the  of  pay  to 
monthly  pay  of  the  commiflioned  officers,  non-  ^  ^^"^"^P** 
commiflioned  officers  privates  and  muficians,  on 
the  military  eftablifiiment  of  the  United  States, 
and  of  ihe  three  regiments  authorized  by  this; 
acl,  fhall  be,  in  future,  as  follows,  free  of  all 
deduftions,  to  wit  : — General  Staff — A 
major  general,  one  hundred  and  f:xty-fix  dol- 
lars. A  brigadier  general,  one  hundred  and 
four  dollars.  C^iarter  mafter,  one  hundred 
dollars.  Adjutant,  to  do  alfo  the  duty  of  in- 
fpedor,  feventy-five  dollars.  Chaplain,  fifty 
dollars.  Surgeon,  feventy  dollars.  Deputy 
quarter  mafler,  fifty  dollars.  Aid  de  camp, 
in  addition  to  his  pay  in  the  line,  twenty 
four  dollars.  Brigade  major,  to  a£l  alfo  as  de- 
puty infpeftor,  in  addition  to  his  pay  in  the 
line,  twenty-four  dollars.  Principal  artificer, 
forty  dollars.  Second  artificer,  twenty-fix  dol- 
lars.— Regimental — Lieutenant  colonel  com- 
mandant, feventy  five  dollars.  Major  com- 
mandant of  artillery,  and  major  of  dragoons, 
fifty  five  dollars.  Paymafler,  in  addition  to  his 
pay  in  the  line,  ten  dollars.  Quarter  mafter, 
in  addition  to  his  pay  in  the  Une,  eight  dollars. 
Adjutant,  in  addition  to  his  pay  in  the  line,  ten 
dollars.  Majors  of  infantry,  fifty  dollars.  Cap- 
tains, forty  dollars.  Lieutenants,  twenty  fix 
dollars.  Enfigns  and  cornets,  twenty  dollars. 
Surgeons,  forty  five  dollars.  Mates,  thirty 
dollars.  Serjeant  majors  and  quarter-mafter 
ferjeants,  fevcn  dollars.  Senior  muficians,  fix 
dollars.  Serjeants,  fix  dollars.  Corporals,  five 
dollars.  Privates,  three  dollars.  Muficians, 
four  dollars.    Artificers  allowed  to  the  infantry, 


light  dragoons,  and  artillery,  and  included  as 
privates,  eight  dollars.  Matrons  and  nurfes  in 
the  hofpital,  eight  dollars. 

Sec.  8.  And  be  it  further  ejiacled.  That  the 
rations,  or  money  in  lieu  thereof,  for  the  com- 
millioned,  non-commifiioned  officers,  privates 
and  muficians  of  the  additional  troops  herein 
mentioned,  fliali  be  the  fame,  as  defcribed  in 
the  aforefaid  aft,  intituled  "  An  aft  for  regu- 
lating the  military  eflablifliment  of  the  United 
States,"  and  in  the  aft  paffed  in  the  third  feffion 
of  the  firft  Congrefs,  intituled  "  An  aft  for 
raifmg  and  adding  another  regiment  to  the  mi- 
litary eilablirhment  of  the  United  States,  and  for 
making  farther  provifion  for  the  proteftion  of 
the  frontiers. 

Sec.  9.  And  be  it  further  enatled.  That  the 
forage,  to  be  allov/ed  to  the  officers  of  the  ad- 
ditional regiments  authorized  by  this  aft,  be  the 
fame  as  defcribed  by  the  afts  before  mentioned. 

Sec.  10.  And  be  it  further  ena&ed.  That  the 
allowance  of  clothing  for  non  commiffioned 
officers  and  privates  of  the  infantry  of  the  faid 
three  regiments,  fliall  be  the  fame,  as  is  by  law 
eftabliflied  :  that  fuitable  clothing  be  provided 
for  the  cavalry,  and  adapted  to  the  nature  of 
the  fervice,  and  conformed  as  near  as  may  be, 
to  the  value  of  the  clothing  allowed  to  the  in- 
fantry and  artillery. 

Sec.  II.  Amd  be  it  further  enaded^  That  all 
h.  the  commiffioned,  and  non  commiffioned  of- 
ficers, privates  and  muficians  of  the  faid  three 
regiments,  fiiall  take  the  fame  oaths,  fliall  be 
governed  by  the  fame  rules  and  regulations, 
and  in  cafes  of  difabilities,  ihall  receive  the  fame 
compenfations,  as  are  defcribed  in  the  before- 
mentioned  aft,    intituled  *'  An  aft  for  regu- 


forajre ; 


lothin' 


To  take  an 


fcivii 
valry,  &c. 


their  pay ; 


(      6i       ) 

lating  the  military  eftablifliment  of  the  United 
States." 

Sec  12.  And  be  it  further  enacted^  That  it  Difcretion- 
fhall  be  lawful  for  the  Prefident  of  the  United  -y-- 
States,  to  forbear  to  raife,  or  to  dilcharge,  after 
they  fhall  be  raifed,  the  whole  or  any  part  of 
the  faid  three  additional  regiments,  in  cafe 
events  (hall  in  his  judgment,  render  his  fo  doing 
confident  with  the  pubHc  fafety.. 

Sec.  13.  And  he  it  further  enaBed,  That  the  ^  caU  into 
Prefident  be,  and  he  hereby  is  authorized,  from  ' 
time  to  time,  to  call  into  fervice,  and  for  fuch 
periods  as  he  may  deem  requifite,  fuch  number 
of  cavalry  as,  in  his  judgment,  may  be  necef- 
fary  for  the  protection  of  the  frontiers:  Provided, 
That  the  non-commiiTioned  officers  fnali  not  be 
allowed  more  than  one  dollar  per  day,  nor  the 
privates  more  than  feventy  five  cents  per  day, 
each  perfon  finding  his  horfe,  arms  and  ac- 
coutrements, and  at  his  own  rifque,  and  twenty 
five  cents  per  day  in  lieu  of  rations  and  forage  : 
Provided  he  furnilh  himfelf  therewith. 

Sec.  14.  And  he  it  further  cnaBcd^  That  the  prefident  te 
Prefident  alone  be,  and  he  hereby  is  authorized  j-'Pg'^]^^^^^ 
to  appoint,  for  the  cavalry  fo  to  be  engaged, 
the  proper  commifTioned  officers,  who  Ihall  not 
exceed,  in  number  and  rank,  the  proportions 
affigned  to  the  faid  three  regiments,  and  whofe 
pay^and  other  allowances  fliall  not,  exclufively 
of  fifty  cents  per  day  for  the  ufe  and  rifque  of 
their  horfes,  exceed  thofe  of  officers  of  corref- 
ponding  rank,  in  the  faid  regiments. 

Sec.  15.  And  he  it  further  enacJcd,  That  the  ^,^,\  may 
Prefident  of  the  United  States  be  authorized,  <^^J  i"- 
in  cafe  he  fliall  deem  the  meafure  expedient, 
to  employ  fuch  number  of  the  Indians,  and  for 
fuch  compcnrations,  as  he  may  think  proper  : 


(  62  ) 

Prcvided,  The  faid  compenfatlons  do  not,  in  the 

whole,  exceed  twenty  thoufand  dollars. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the 

Hi'uft  of  Reprcfcntativcs. 
JOHN  ADAMS,  Vice- Pre fdenf  of  the  United 
States  and  Prefident  of  the  Senate. 
Approved,  March  the  fifth,    179^- 

G^  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States, 


CHAPTER     X. 

An  ACT  derlr.r:;ir  the  confcnt  of  Congrefs  to  a  certain  aEl 
oj  the  State  of  Maryland,  and  to  continue  for  a  longer 
tir/ie,  an  a&.  declaring  the  affent  of  Congrefs  to  certain  aEls 
ef  the  States  of  Maryland,  Georgia,  and  Rhodc-Ifland  and 
Providence  Plantations,  fo  far  as  the  fame  rcfpecis  the 
States  of  Georgia,  and  Rhode-Ifland  and  Providence 
Plantations. 

Sec.  I.  'Wy^  ^f  cnaclcdhy  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of 
|p  Reprcfentati-ves  of  the  United  States 

of  America^  in  Congrefs  affcmblcd.  That  the  con- 
Confent  of  ^^^^"^  ^^  Congieis  be,  and  is  hereby  granted  and 
Congrefs  to  declared  to  the  operation  of  an  act  of  the  Gen- 
cmainTft^  eral  Affembly  of  Maryland,  made  and  palTed  at 
ofMary-  a  feffion  begun  and  held  at  the  city  of  Annapo- 
!and;    and  jj^^  ^^  ^|^g  'A^.^^  Monday  in  November  laft,  inti- 

tilled,  "  An  aft  empowering  the  wardens  of  the 

port  of  Baltimore  to  levy  and  collect  the  duty 

therein  mentioned.'* 

Sec.  2.  ^"Ind  he  it  further  enacted.,  That  the  act 
cmain'ad>s  i^tituled  "  Au  act  declaring  the  alTent  of  Con- 
Maryiand,  grcfs  to  Certain  acts  of  the  itates  of  Maryland, 
.c.:c.   conti-  Qqqy^\2l  and  Rhode-Ifland  and  Providence  Plan- 

nued  as    to  o 

Geor-ia      tatious,"  fliall  bc  continued,  and  is  hereby  de- 
&  R.ir.and.  clared  to  be  in  full  force,  fo  far  as  the  fame  re- 

fpeds  the  ftates  of  Georgia  and  P^hode-Illand 

and  Providence  Plantations. 

Lirmtatio::.      Sec.  3.  And  be  it  further  enaSed.,   That  this 
act  fhali  be  and  continue  in  force  for  the  term 


(       ^3       ) 

of  three  years,  and  from  thence  to  the  end  of 
the  next  feflion  ofCongrefs,  and  no  longer. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the 

Houje  of  Reprejentadvcs. 
JOHN  ADAMS,  Vice-PrefAent  of  the  United 
States,  and  Prefidtnt  of  the  Senate. 

.\ppROV£D,  March  the  nineteenth,  1792. 

G^:  WASHINGTON, 

Prejldcnt  oj'thi  Unih\l  States. 


C  li  A  P  T  E  R     XL 

An  ACT  to  provide  for  the  fettUment  of  the  Claims  of 
Widows  and  Orphans  barred  by  the  limitations  heretofore 
ejlablified  and  to  regulate  the  Claims  to  Invalid  Pcnfions. 

Sec.  I.  TJE  //  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe 
j3    of  Reprefentatives    of  the    United 
States  of  Arncric.i,  in   Congrefs  afembled.,  That 
the    operation  of  the  refolutions  of  the    late  ^"/'^^"J"",, 
Congrefs  of  the  United  States,  paffed  on  the  le-  of  csrta'm 
cond   day  of  November,  one  thoufand  feven  J^f  f  "',;°"^'r, 
hundred  and  eighty  live,  and  the  twenty  third  b^rnn/ 
day  of  July,  one  thoufand  {QVtTi  hundred  and  ''''""''■ 
eighty   feven,  fo  far  as    they  have  barred,  or 
may  be  conflrued   to  bar  the  claims  of  the 
widow  or  orphans  of  any  officer    of  the   late 
army,  to  the  feven  years  half  pay  of  fuch  officer, 
Ihall,   from   and  after  the  palling  this  act,   be 
fufpended   for   and   during  the  term  of  two 
years. 

Sec.  2.    And  be  it  further  cnaciedy  That  any  _ 
commiflioned  officer,  not  having  received  the  f,cc,-s,  &c. 
commutation  of  half  pay,  and  any  non-com-  ho^j  t«  !>« 
millioned  officer,  foldier  or  feaman,  dilabled  in  ^'''\V,p 
the  adual  fervice  of  the  United  States,  during  penfionlift. 
the  late  war,  by  wounds  or  other  known  caufe, 
who  did  not  deiert  from  the  laid  fervice>  ihall 
be  entitled  to  be  placed  on  the  penfion   lift  of 
the  United  States,    during  life  or  the  conti- 
nuance of  fuch  difability,  and  fntll  alfo  be  al- 


(       64       ) 

Difabied  lowed  fuch  farther  fum  for  the  arrears  of  pen- 
on  ccrs,  &c,  fion,  from  the  time  of  fuch  difabihty,  not 
phced^on  ^  exceeding  the  rate  of  the  annual  allowance,  in 
penfioniifi.  confcquence  of  his  difability,  as  the  circuit 
court  of  the  dill:ri6t,  in  which  they  refpet'ilively 
refide,  may  think  juft.  Provided^  That  in  every 
fach  cafe,  the  rules  and  regulations  following 
fhall  be  complied  with  j  that  is  to  fay  : — Firft. 
Every  applicant  fliall  attend  the  court  in  perfon, 
except  where  it  fhall  be  certified  by  two  ma- 
giflrates  that  he  is  unable  to  do  fo,  and  fliall 
produce  to  the  circuit  court,  the  following 
proofs,  to  wit  : — A  certificate  from  the  com- 
manding officer  of  the  Ihip,  regiment,  corps  or 
company,  in  which  he  ferved,  fetting  forth 
his  difability,  and  that  he  was  thus  difabled 
while  in  the  fervice  of  the  United  States ;  or 
the  affidavits  of  two  credible  witnefTes  to  the 
fame  effect. — The  affidavits  of  three  reputable 
freeholders  of  the  city,  town,  or  county,  in 
which  he  refidqs,  afcertaining  of  their  own 
knowledge,  the  mode  of  life,  employment, 
labor,  or  means  of  fupport  of  fuch  applicant, 
for  the  lafl  twelve  months. — Secondly.  The 
circuit  court,  upon  receipt  of  the  proofs  afore- 
faid,  fhall  forthwith  proceed  to  examine  into 
the  nature  of  the  wound,  or  other  caufe  of  dif- 
ability of  fuch  applicant,  and  having  afcer- 
tained  the  degree  thereof,  fhall  certify  the 
fame,  and  tranfmit  the  refult  of  their  enquiry, 
ill  cafe,  in  their  opinion,  the  applicant  fliould  be 
put  on  the  peniAon-lifl,  to  the  Secretary  at  War, 
together  with  i  their  opinion  in  writing,  what 
proportion  of  the  monthly  pay  of  fuch  appli- 
cant will  be  equivalent  to  the  degree  of  difa- 
bility afcertained  in  manner  aforefaid. 

Sec.  3.  And  be  it  further  enaded^  That  tlie 
clerk  of  thti  diihict  court,  in  each  difl:ri6r, 
fhall  publifii  this  aft  in  fuch  manner  as  the 
judge  of  the  diflrid  court  fliall  think  effedual 


when 


(     65     ) 

to   give   general   information   thereof  to  the  clerk 
people  of'  the   diftrid,  and  fliall  give  like  in-  P"bi>"^.  '^ 
formation  of  the  times  and  places  ot  holding  notice wh 
the  circuit  courts  in  fuch  diftrict.     And  in  dif-  '^e  dirtria 
tricls   wherein  a  circuit  court  is  not  directed  ^c. 
by  law  to  be  holden,  the  judge  of  the  diftrid 
court  fliall  be,  and  he  hereby  is  authorized  to 
exercife  all  the  powers  given  by  this  aft  to  the 
refpeclive  circuit  courts.     And  it  fhall  be  the 
duty  of  the  judges  of  the  circuit  courts  ref- duty  of  the 
peclively,  during   the  term  of  two  years  from  J"'^^" ; 
the.paffing  of  this  aft,  to  remain  at  the  places 
where  the  faid  courts  fliall  be  holden,  five  days 
at  the  lead  from  the  time  of  opening  the  fef- 
fions  thereof,  that  perfons  difabled   as  afore - 
faid,    may  have  full  opportunity  to  make  their 
application  for  the  relief  propofed  by  this  aft. 

Sec.  4.  And  he  it  further  enaHed,  That  the  ,  ,     ^ 

r>  TT^  •  r    1  r      oft'ie   Sec. 

Secretary  at  War,  upon  receipt  or  the  proots,  at  w^ar. 
certificate  and  opinion  aforefaid,  fliall  caufe 
the  fame  to  be  duly  filed  in  his  office,  and 
place  the  name  of  fuch  applicant  on  the  pen- 
fion-lifl  of  the  United  States,  in  conformity 
thereto  :  Provided  always^  That  in  any  cafe, 
where  the  faid  Secretary  fliall  have  caufe  to 
fulpeft  impofition  or  miftake,  he  fliall  have 
pov/er  to  withold  the  name  of  fuch  applicant 
from  the  penfion-Hil,  and  make  report  of  the 
fame  to  Congrefs,  at  their  next  feflion. 

Sec.  5.    And  he  it  further  enaEled^  That  all  Difabled 
non-commiflloned  officers,  foldiers  and  feamen,  pcrfonsbar- 
difabled  in  the  aftual  fervice  of  the  United  [adons.tobc 
States,  during  the  late  war,  whofe  difability  P'^"'^    °" 
and  rate  of  allowance  have  been  afcertained,  ^^"  ^"  '  * 
purfuant  to  the  regulations  prefcribed  by  the 
late   Congrefs,    and  have  not  applied  to  be 
placed  on  the  penfion-lifl:,  until  after  the  time, 
limited   by  the  aft  of  Congrefs  for  that  pur- 
1 


(    ^^    ) 

pofe,  was  expired,  fhall  now  be  placed  on  the 
penfion-lift,  and  be  entitled  to  demand  and 
receive  their  refpefliive  penfions,  according  to' 
the  allowances  afcertained  as  aforefaid,  any 
thing  in  this  act,  or  any  ad  of  the  late  Con- 
grefs,  to  the  contrary,  notwithftanding. 

Transfer,         Sec.  6.  Jfid  be  it  further  enaded.  That  from 

&c.of  pen-  and  after  thepaffing  of  this  act,  no  fale,  tranf- 

duJ'notvr  ^^^  ^^  mortgage  of  the  whole  or  any  part  of 

iid,'&  how  the  penfion  or  arrearages  of  penfion,  payable 

paid  to  at-  |.Q   g^j^y  non-commiflioned   officer,    foldier  or 

feaman,  before  the  fame   fliail  become    due, 

fhall  be  valid.     And   every  perfon,    claiming 

fuch  penfion  or  arrears  of  penfion,  or  any  part 

thereof,  under  power  of  attorney  or  fubftitu- 

tion,  fhall,    before  the  fame  is  paid,    make 

oath  or  affirmation  before  fome  juftice  of  the 

peace  of  the  place  where  the  fame  is  payable, 

that  fuch  power  or  fubftitution  is  not  given  by 

reafon  of  any  transfer  of  fuch   penfion,    or 

arrears  of  penfion,  and  any  perfon,  who  fliall 

fwear  or  affirm  falfely  in  the  premifes,  and  be 

thereof  convided,  fhall  fuffer,    as  for  wilful 

and  corrupt  perjury. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the 
Houfe  of  Reprefentatives. 

JOHN  ADAMS,   Vice-Preftdent  of  the  United 
States,  and  Prefident  of  the  Senate, 

Approved,  March  the  twenty-third,  1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States, 


(    6;    ) 

CHAPTER     XII. 

An  ACT  providing  for  the  Jtttkmcnt  of  the  Claims  oj Per- 
fons  under  particular  circiwijlances  barred  by  the  limi- 
talions  heretofore  ejlablijhed. 

Sec.  I.  TJ  E  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe  ..  .    . 

X)  of  Reprcfcntatives  of  the  United  States  of  chimUy 
of  America,  in  Congrefs  affembkd^  That  the  opera-  "rtain  re- 
tion  of  the  refolutions  of  the  late  Congrefs  of  fufpe°ded 
the  United  States,  pafled  on  the  fecond  day  of  for  2  years; 
November,  one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and 
eighty-five,  and  the  twenty -third  day  of  July, 
one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and  eighty-feven, 
fo  far  as  they  have  barred,  or  may  be  conftrued 
to  bar  the  claims  of  any  officer,  foldier,  arti- 
ficer, failor  or   marine  of  the   late    army  or 
navy  of  the  United  States,  for  perfonal  fervices 
rendered  to  the  United  States,  in  the  military 
or  naval  deparcment,  fliall  from  and  after  the 
paffing  of  this  aft,  be  fufpended,   for  and  du- 
ring the  term  of  two  years.     And  that  every 
fuch  officer,  foldier,  artificer,  failor   and  ma- 
rine having  claims  for  fervices  rendered  to  the 
United  States,  in  the  military  or  naval  depart- 
ments, who  fliall  exhibit  the  fame,  for  Hquidati- 
on,  at  the  Treafury  of  the  ITnited  States,  at  any 
time  during  the  faid  term  of  two  years,  ihall  be 
entitled  to  an  adjuftment,  and  allowance  thereof 
on  the  fame  principles,  as  if  the  fame  had  been  ^^^,  ^^ 
exhibited,  within   the  term  prefcribed  by  the  tend    to 
aforefaid    refolutions  of  Congrefs:  Provided, ^^^'!^^  ^^"^ 

riM  ,  .  ,  •        n      II    1  n  1  rations  &.C. 

inat  nothing  herem  Ihall  be  conltrued  to  ex- 
tend to  claims  for  rations  or  fubfiflance  money. 

Sec.  2.    And  be  it  further  cnaded.  That  no  Jj''^^^'''^'^J'' 
balances  hereafter  to  be  certified, as  due  from  the  J  ii?namc 
United  States,  fhall  be  regiftered  in  any  other  ^^  "•■'g'"=»i 
name,  than  that  of  the  original  claimant,  or  of '^j^r^'"'' 
his  heirs,  executors  or  adminiitrators  ;  and  fuch 
balances  (hall  be  transferable  only  at  the  Trea- 
fury, by  virtue  of  powers  actually  executed  after 


(      68      ) 

fuch  regiftry,  expreffing  the  fum  to  be  trans- 
ferred, and  in  purfuance  of  fuch  general  rules,  as 
have  been,  or  fhall  be  prefer ibed  for  that  purpofe. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the 
Hovfe  of  Reprefentatives. 

JOHN  ADAMS,  Vice- Prefident  of  the  United 
States,  and  Preffdent  of  the  Senate. 

Approved,  March  the  twenty  feventh,  1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States. 

, 3, , 

CHAPTER     XIII. 

An  ACT  for  the  relief  of  certain  Widorvs,   Orphans,    Inva- 
lids-^ctnd  other  Perfons. 

Comptrol-  Sec.  I.  X)  E  ^'^  enaftcd  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe 
•uft^'the'^  -t3   of  Reprefentatives    of   the    Vmtcd 

iiaims  of    States  of  America  in  Congrefs  affemhled.,  Thar  1  he 
^"^'"a'd'"  Comptroller  of  the  Trealury  adjull  the  claims  of 
prphans.      the  widows  and  orphans  refpcclively,  as  the  cafe 
may  be,  of  the  late  colonel  Owen  Roberts,  cap- 
tain William  White,  lieutenant  colonel  Bernard 
Elliott,  major   Samuel  Wife,  major  Benjamin 
Huger,  lieutenant  John  Bufh,and  major  Charles 
Motte,  deceafed,  all  of  whom  were  killed  or  died 
in  the  fervice  of  the  United  States,  for  the  feven 
fpryyears,  years  halF-pay  ftipulated  by  the  refolve  of  Ccn- 
haif-pay,     ^^.^^g  ^^  ^^  twcnty-fourth  day  of  Augufi,  one 
thou  fan  d  feven  hundred  and  eighty  ;  and  that 
the  Regiflier  oftheTreafury  do  iiTue  his  certifi- 
cates accordingly. 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enaded.  That  the  Se- 

Timotliy     cretaryof  thedepartmentof  warbe,and  be  hereby 

Abel  Tur-  IS  required  to  place  on  the  invalid  Hfl,  1  imothy 

rcy  placed  Mix,  difablcd  in  the  late  war,  by  the  lofs  of  his 

ou  penfion  ^jgj^j  hand,  whilc  in  the  fervice  of  the  United 

States,  at  the  rate  of  five  dollars  per  month,  to 

commence  on  the  fourth  day  of  February  one 

thoufand  feven  hundred  and  eighty-three.  That 


(       69       ) 

the  fald  Secretary  place  on  the  invalid  lift,  Abel 
Turney,  mariner,  difabled  while  in  the  lervice 
of  the  United  States,  at  the  rate  of  one  dollar 
per  month,  to  commence  on  the  firil  day  of  Ja- 
nuary, one  thoufand  feven  hmidred  and  eighty- 
one. 

Sec.  3.  A?id  be  it  further  omcled^  That  the  ar- 
rears of  the  faid  penfions  be  paid  as  the  laws 
dired  in  fimilar  cafes. 


Sec.  4.    And  he  it  further  enaSied,  That  the 
Comptroller  of  the  Treafury  be,  and  he  hereby  ler'wadjuft 
is  required    to  adjult  the  accounts   of  Jofeph  '^^  account 
Pannil  a  lieutenant-colonel  in  the  fervice  of  the  "'anmh^ 
United  States,  as  a  deranged  officer  upon  the 
principles  of  the  act  of  the  late  Congrefs,  of  the 
third  of  Odober  one  thoufand  ^evQv.  hundred 
and  eighty,  and  to  allow  him  the   ufual   com- 
mutation of  the  half-pay  for  life  of  a  lieuten- 
ant-colonel, and  that  the  Regifter  of  the  Trea- 
fury be,  and  he  hereby  is  required  to  grant  a 
certificate  for  the  amount  of  the  balance  due  to 
him.    That  the  Comptroller  adjuft  the  account  ^f  j,,,_.  j^^^ 
of  the  late  brigadier  general  De  Haas,  admit-  Brig.  Gea 
ting    to  the  credit  of  the  faid   account,  fuch  '^ 
fums  as  by  evidence  fhall    appear  to  have  been 
advanced    for  the  public  fervice,   and  which 
have  been  charged  by  the  United  States  to  the 
officers  who  have  received  the   fame  for   the 
public  fervice,  and  that  the  faid   Regifter  do 
grant  a  certificate  for  the  balance  due  on  fuch 
fettlement.     That  the  faid  Comptroller  adjuft 
the  account  of  Thomas  M'Intire,  a  captain  in 
the    fervice  of  the  United   States,  during  the  M'lntirc. 
late  war,  and  allow  him  the  ufual  commutation 
of  the  half-pay  for  life  of  a  captain,  and  that  andRegid- 
the   faid    Regifter  grant   a  certificate  for  the  certScato! 
amount  thereof  accordingly. 


De  Haas. 


(       70       ) 

Sec.  5.     And  he  it  further  enadcd.  That  the 
lertoadjufi  Comptroller  of  the  Treafury  be,  and  he  hereby 
i^'^^^onvx  jg  required  to  adjufl  the  account  of  Francis  Su- 
Suzor  De-  zor  Dcbevere,  a  furgeon's  mate  in  the  fervice 
fcevcre.      of  the  United  States  during  the  late  war,  and 
who  remained  in  captivity  to  the  end  thereof, 
and  that  the  Regifter  of  the  Treafury  be,  and 
he  hereby  is  reo^uired  to  grant  a  certificate  for 
the  amount  which  Hiall  be  found  due  for  the 
fervices  of  the  faid  Francis    Suzor   Debevere. 
That  the  faid  Comptroller  adjufl    the  account 
RoV  Kixi^  of  Robert  King,  as  a  lieutenant,  deranged  upon 
"  the  principles  of  the  acl  of  the  late   Congrefs, 
palled  the  twenty-fourth  day  of  November,  one 
ihoufand  feven  hundred  and  feventy-eight,  and 
that  the  faid  Regifter  grant  a  certificate  accord- 
ingly.    That  the   Comptroller  adjufl  the  ac- 
Lcmuei      count  of  LemucI  Sherman,  as  a  failing  mafter 
Sherman,    of  E  galley  on  Lake  Champlain,  and  as  fuch 
and  Re<rift-  taken  prifoner  ;     and  that    the    faid  Regifter 
cr  to  grant  graiit  a  certificate  accordingly. 

Nicholas  F       ^^^*   ^*      ^'^^  ^"   ''^  farther  enacied.    That 
w'^ftfaii,  '  there  be  granted  to  Nicholas  Ferdinand  Well- 
grant  of     fjiii^  ^vho  left  the  Britifh  fervice  and  joined  the 
IIs&SLvs.  army  of  the  United  States,  during  the  late  war, 
one  hundred  acres  of  unappropriated   land  in 
the  weflern  territory  of  the  United  States,  free 
of  all  charges,  and  alfo  the   fum  of  three  hun- 
dred and  thirty-fix  dollars,  out  of  any  money 
appropriated  to  the  contingent  charges  of  go- 
vernment. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the 
Hovfe  of  Rcprefentatives. 

JOHN  ADAMS,  Vice- Prefident  of  the  United 
Stales,  and  Prefident  of  the  Senate. 

Approved.  Alarch  the  twenty  feventh,  179''.. 

G°:  V/ASHINGTON, 

Prejuknt  oj  thx  United  States. 


(      7t       ) 
C  II  A  P  T  E  R     XIV. 

An  ACT  fuppUmaital  to  the  Act  for  making  farther  and 
more  effettiial  Provijion  for  the  proteElion  of  the  Frontiers 
of  the  United  States. 

BE  /"/  enaded  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of  Re-  i^refidentof 
prefentaiives  of  the  United  States  of  Ame-  '^'^  u.  s. 
rica  in  Congrefs  afjhnbled^  That  it  fhall  be  law-  p'jj^.  ""J't 
ful  for  the  Prefideiit  of  the  United  States  by  more  than 
and  with  the  advice  and  confent  of  the  Senate  '^  ^*  ^^^  ^* 
to  appoint  fuch  number  of  brigadier-generals  as 
may  be  conducive  to  the  good  of  the  public  fer- 
vice.     Provided  the  whole  number  appointed, 
or  to  be  appointed  (hall  not  exceed  four. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the 
Houfe  of  Reprejentativcs. 

JOHN  ADAMS,  Vice- Prefident  of  the  United 
States,  and  Prefident  of  the  Senate. 

Approved,    March  the  twenty-eightl*;-  1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States. 


CHAPTER     XV. 

An  ACT  forfnifhing  the  Light-Houfe  on  Baidhead  at  the 
mouth  of  Cape  Fear  river  in  in:  State  of  North-Carolina. 


B 


E  /■/  ena6led  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of  Re- 
prefentati-ves  of  the  United  States  of  Ame- ^^'^^^^^.'H 
rica,  in  Congrefs  affemblcd.   That  the  Secretary  finifn  the 
of  the  Treafury;  under   the  diredion  of  the  i^si^^:^7^<= 

•'  on    raid- 

Prefident  of  the  United  States,  be  authori-  head  in  N. 
fed,  as  foon  as  maybe,  to  caufe  to  be  finilhed  ^^^'^'■'^''■'^• 
in  fuch  manner  as  lirall  appear  advifable,  the 
light  houfe  heretofore  begun  under  the  autho- 
rity of  the  (late  of  North-Carolina,  on  Bald- 
head  at  the  mouth  of  Cape  Fear  river  in  the 
faid  (late  :  And  that  a  fum,  not  exceeding 
four  thoufand  dollars,  be  appropriated  for  the 
fame,  out  of  any  monies  heretofore  appropria- 
ted, which  may  remain  unexpended,   after  fa- 


(       72       ) 

tisfying  the  purpofes  for  which  they  were  ap- 
propriated, or  out  of  any  other  monies,  which 
may  be  in  the  Treafury,  not  fabject  to  any  prior 
appropriation. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the  Houfe 
of  Reprcfentatives, 

JOHN  ADAMS,  Vke-Prefident  oftheUnited  States, 
and  Prefident  of  the  Seiiate. 

Approved,   April  the  fecond,    1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States. 

CHAPTER     XVI. 

An  ACT  eftablifJiing  a  Mint,  and  regulating  the   Coins  of 
the  United  States. 

i^,»jjj  gj^j.  Sec.  I.  "W^^  it  enaded  by  the  Seiiate  and  Houfe 
biiftied.  _j3  ofReprefentatives  oftheUnited  States 

of  America  in  Congrfs  ajfambled^  and  it  is  here- 
by enad:ed  and  declared^  That  a  mint  for  the 
purpofe  of  a  national  coinage,  be,  and  the  fame 
is  ellabhflied  ;  to  be  fituate  and  carried  on  at 
the  feat  of  the  government  of  the  United  States, 
for  the  time  being  :  And  that  for  the  well  con- 
ducing of  the  bufinefs  of  the  faid  mint,  there 
fhall  be  the  following  officers  and  perfons, 
namely, — a  Diredor,  an  Affayer,  a  Chief  Coin- 
er, an  Engraver,  a  Treafurer. 
Direflor  to  ^^^'  "'  ^^^^  '^^  it  further  enaded.  That  the 
employ  Diredor  of  the  mint  (hall  employ  as  many  clerkn, 
workmen  and  fervants,  as  he  fhall  from  time  to 
time  find  necelfary,  fubjefl:  to  the  approbation 
of  the  Prefident  of  the  United  States. 

Sec.  3.  And  be  it  further  cnaded.,  That  the 
refpedive  functions  and  duties  of  the  officers 
above  mentioned  fhall  be  as  follow.  The  Di- 
reftor  of  the  mint  fhall  have  the  chief  manage- 
ment of  the  bufinefs  thereof,  and  fliall  fuper- 
intend  ail  othsr  oiHcers  and  perfons  who  iiiall 


workmen 
&c 


Duty  <  f  the 


(      73      ) 

be  empIo)^ci  therein.  The  affayer  fhall  receive 
and  give  receipts  for  all  metals  which  may  law- 
fully be  brought  to  the  mint  to  be  coined  ;  (hall 
ailay  all  fuch  of  them  as  may  require  it,  and 
fliall  deliver  them  to  the  chief  coiner  to  be 
coined.  The  chief  coiner  (hall  caufe  to  be  coined 
all  metals  which  ihall  be  received  by  him  for  that 
purpofe,  according  to  fuch  regulations  as  fliall  be 
prefcribed  by  this  or  any  future  law.  The  engra- 
ver fliall  fmk  and  prepare  the  neceflary  dies 
for  fuch  coinage,  with  the  proper  devices  and 
infcriptions,  but  it  fhall  be  lawful  for  the  func- 
tions and  duties  of  chief  coiner  and  engraver 
to  be  performed  by  one  perfon.  The  treafurer 
fliall  receive  from  the  chief  coiner  all  the  coins 
which  fhall  have  been  flruck,  and  fhall  pay  or 
deliver  them  to  the  perfcns  refpeftively  to  whom 
the  fame  ought  to  be  paid  or  delivered  :  He 
fhall  moreover  receive  and  fafely  keep  all  mo- 
nies which  fhall  be  for  the  ufe,  maintenance 
and  fupport  of  the  mint  and  fhall  difburfe  the 
fame  upon  warrants  figned  by  the  diredor. 

Sec.  4.  And  be  it  further  cnaBed^  That  eve-  ^^  j^^g 
ry  officer  and  clerk  of  the  faid  mint  fliall  before  oath. 
he  enters  upon  the  execution  of  his  office,  take 
an  oath  or  affirmation  before  fome  judge  of 
the  United  States  faithfully  and  diligently  to 
perform  the  duties  thereof. 

Sec.  5.  And  he  it  further  cnacled.  That  the  And  give 
faid  affayer,  chief  coiner  and  treafurer,  previ-  ^^nd. 
oufly  to  entering  upon  the  execution  of  their 
refpeclive  offices  fhall  each  become  bound  to 
the  United  States  of  America,  with  one  or 
more  fureties  to  the  fatisfaclion  of  the  Secretary 
of  the  Treafury,  in  the  fum  of  ten  thoufand 
dollars,  with  condition  for  the  faithful  and  di- 
ligent performance  of  the  duties  of  his  office. 

.     Sec.  6.     And  be  it  further  enacled.    That  Saian«: 
there  fliall  be  allowed  and  paid  as  compenfations 
K 


(       74      ) 

for  their  refpedive  fervices— To  the  faid  di- 
reftor,  a  yearly  falary  of  two  thoufand  dollars, 
to  the  faid  alTayer,  a  yearly  falary  of  one  thou- 
fand five  hundred  dollars,  to  the  faid  chief 
coiner,  a  yearly  falary  of  one  thoufand  five  hun- 
dred dollars,  to  the  faid  engraver,  a  yearly  falary 
of  one  thoufand  two  hundred  dollars,  to  the 
faid  treafurer  a  yearly  falary  of  one  thoufand 
two  hundred  dollars,  to  each  clerk  who  may 
be  employed,  a  yearly  falary  not  exceeding  five 
hundred  dollars,  and  to  the  feveral  fubordi- 
nate  workmen  and  fervants  fuch  wages  and 
allovi^ances  as  are  cuftomary  and  reafonable, 
according  to  their  refpedive  ftations  and  occu- 
pations. 
Accounts  Sec.  7.  Arid  be  it  further  enacted^  That  the 
whlreTo'^be  ^^couuts  of  the  officcrs  and  perfons  employed 
fettled.  in  and  about  the  faid  mint  and  for  fervices  per- 
formed in  relation  thereto  and  all  other  ac- 
counts concerning  the  bufmefs  and  adminiftra- 
tion  thereof  fhall  be  adjufted  and  fettled  in  the 
treafury  department  of  the  United  States  and  a 
quarter  yearly  account  of  the  receipts  and  dif- 
burfements  of  the  faid  mint  fhall  be  rendered  at 
the  faid  treafury  for  fettlement  according  to  fuch 
forms  and  regulations  as  fhall  have  been  pre- 
fcribed  by  that  department  ;  and  that  once  in 
each  year  a  report  of  the  tranfadions  of  the  faid 
mint,  accompanied  by  an  abftracl  of  the  fettle- 
ments  which  fhall  have  been  from  time  to  time 
made,  duly  certified  by  the  Comptroller  of  the 
Treafury,  fliall  be  laid  before  Congrefs  for 
their  information. 
Prefidentof  Sec.  8.  And  he  it  further  ena^ed^  T\i2X\i\ 
u.  s.  to  addition  to  the  authority  veiled  in  the  Prefident 
caufc  build- of  the  United  States  by  a  refolution  of  the  lafl 
provided.^  feflion,  touching  the  engaging  of  artifls  and  the 
procuring  of  apparatus  for  the  faid  mint,  the 
Prefident  be  authorized,  and  he  is  hereby  au- 
thorized  to  caufe  to  be  provided  and  put  in 


(      75      ) 

proper  condition  fuch  buildings,  ?.nd  in  fuch 
manner  as  Ihall  appear  to  him  requifiie  for  the 
purpofe  of  carrying  on  the  bufinefs  of  the  faid 
mint ;  and  that  as  well  the  expenfes  which  ihall 
have  been  incurred  purfuant  to  the  faid  refolu- 
tion  as  thofe  which  may  he  incurred  in  pro- 
viding and  preparing  the  faid  buildings,  and  all 
other  expenfes  which  may  hereafter  accrue 
for  the  maintenance  and  fupport  of  the  faid 
mint,  and  in  carrying  on  the  bufmefs  thereof, 
over  and  above  the  liims  which  may  be  receive 
ed  by  reafon  of  the  rate  per  centum  for  coin- 
age herein  after  mentioned,  fliall  be  defrayed 
from  the  Treafury  of  the  United  States,  out  cxpence 
or  any  monies  which  from  time  to  time  Ihall  defrayed, 
be  therein,  not  otherwife  appropriated. 

Sec.  9.  And  be  it  further  enacled^  That  spccies  of 
there  fhall  be  from  time  to  time  flruck  and  the  coinsto 
coined  at  the  faid  mint,  coins  of  gold,  filver  ^^  ^'^"'^^' 
and  copper,  of  the  following  denominations, 
values  and  defcriptions  viz.  Eagles' — each  to 
be  of  the  value  of  ten  dollars  or  units,  and  to 
contain  two  hundred  and  forty  feven  grains 
and  four  eighths  of  a  grain  of  pure,  or  two 
hundred  and  feventy  grains  of  flandard  gold.' 
Half  Eagles — each  to  be  of  the  value  of 
five  dollars,  and  to  contain  one  hundred  ancj 
twenty  three  grains  and  fix  eighths  of  a  grain 
of  pure,  or  one  hundred  and  thirty  five  grains 
of  flandard  gold.  Quarter  Eaglfs — each 
to  be  of  the  value  of  two  dollars  and  a  half 
dollar,  and  to  contain  fixty  one  grains  and  fe- 
ven eighths  of  a  grain  of  pure,  or  fixty  {Q.vt\x 
grains  and  four  eighths  of  a  grain  of  flandard 
gold.  Dollars  or  Units — each  to  be  of  the 
value  of  a  Spanifli  milled  dollar  as  the  fame 
is  now  current,  and  to  contain  three  hundred 
and  feventy  one  grains  and  four  fixteenth 
parts  of  a  grain  of  pure,  or  four  hundred  and 


(      76      ) 

fixteen  grains  of  ftandard  filver.  Half  Dol- 
lars—each  to  be  of  half  the  vahie  of  the  dol- 
lar or  unit,  and  to  contain  one  hundred  and 
eighty  five  grains  and  ten  fixteenth  parts  of 
a  grain  of  pure,  or  two  hundred  and  eight 
grains  of  ftandard  filver.  Quarter  Dollars 
— each  to  be  of  one  fourth  the  value  of  the  dol- 
lar or  unit,  and  to  contain  ninety  two  grains 
and  thirteen  fixteenth  parts  of  a  grain  of  pure, 
or  one  hundred  and  four  grains  of  ftandard 
filver.  DisMEs — each  to  be  of  the  value  of  one 
tenth  of  a  dollar  or  unit,  and  to  contain  thirty 
feven  grains  and  two  fixteenth  parts  of  a  grain 
of  pure,  or  forty  one  grains  and  three  fifth 
parts  of  a  grain  of  ftandard  filver.  Half 
DisMES — each  to  be  of  the  value  of  one  twen- 
tieth of  a  dollar,  and  to  contain  eighteen 
grains  and  nine  fixteenth  parts  of  a  grain  of 
pure,  or  twenty  grains  and  four  fifth  parts  of  a 
grain  of  ftandard  filver.  Cents — ^each  to  be  of 
the  value  of  the  one  hundredth  part  of  a  dollar, 
and  to  contain  eleven  penny-weights  of  copper. 
Half  Cents — each  to  be  of  the  value  of  half 
a  cent,  and  to  contain  five  penny  weights  and 
half  a  pennyweight  of  copper. 

Sec.  10,  And  bs  it  further  enaded.  That 
upon  the  faid  coins  refpeftively  there  ftiall  be 
the  following  devices  and  legends  namely : 
Upon  one  fide  of  each  of  the  laid  coins  there 
ftiall  be  an  impreflion  emblematic  of  liberty, 
with  an  infcription  of  the  word  Liberty,  and 
the  year  of  the  coinage  ;  and  upon  the  reverfe 
of  each  of  the  gold  and  filver  coins  there  ftiall 
be  the  figure  or  reprefentation  of  an  eagle, 
with  this  infcription,  "  United  States  of 
America"  and  upon  the  reverfe  of  each  of  the 
copper  coins,  there  ftiall  be, an  infciiption  v-^hich 
iliall  exprefs  the  denomination  of  the  -  piece, 
namely,  cent  or  half  cent,  as  the  cafe  may  re- 
quire. 


(      77      ) 

Sec.   ir.     And  be  it  further  enaSfed,  That  proportion- 
the  proportional  value  of  gold  to  filver  in  all  "r^^^l^^^^f^ 
coins  which  fliall  by  law  be  current   as   money  vcr. 
withhi  the  United  States,  fliall  be  as  fifteen  to 
one,  according  to  quantity  in  weight,   of  pure 
gold  or  pure  filver  ;  that  is  to  fay,  every  fifteen 
pounds  weight  of  pure  filver  fliall  be  of  equal 
value  in  all  payments,  with  one  pound  weight 
of  pure  gold,  and  fo  in  proportion  as  to  any 
greater  or  lefs  quantities  of  the  refpective  me- 
tals. 

Sec.   1 2.     And  be  it  further  enaBed^    That  standard 
the  ftandard  for  all  gold  coins  of  the  United  f"'"  goi^ 

^     ..  .  1  r  ^  ^  coins    and 

States,  fhall  be  eleven  parts  fine  to  one  part  ^Uoy  how 
alloy;  and  accordingly  that  eleven  parts  intoberegu- 
twelve  of  the  entire  weight  of  each  of  the  faid 
coins  fhall  confift  of  pure  gold,  and  the  re- 
maining one  twelfth  part  of  alloy  ;  and  the  faid 
alloy  fliall  be  compofed  of  filver  and  copper,  in 
fuch  proportions  not  exceeding  one  half  filver 
as  fhall  be  found  convenient ;  to  be  regulated 
by  the  Director  of  the  mint,  for  the  time  being, 
with  the  approbation  of  the  Prefident  of  the 
United  States,  until  further  provifion  flrall  be 
made  by  law.  And  to  the  end  that  the  ne- 
cedary  information  may  be  had  in  order  to  the 
making  of  fuch  further  provifion,  it  flvall  be 
the  duty  of  the  Diredor  of  the   mint,  at  the  ^ 

expiration  of  a  year  after  commencing  the  ope-  J^y'*^"^"''* 
rations  of  the  faid  mint,  to  report  to  Congrefs 
the  pradice  thereof  during  the  laid  year,  touch- 
ing the  compofition  of  the  alloy  of  the  faid 
gold  coins^^  the  reafons  for  fuch  pradHce,  and 
the  experiments  and  obfervations  which  fliall 
have  been  made  concerning  the  eftefts  of  differ- 
ent proportions  of  filver  and  copper  in  the  faid 
alloy. 

Sec.   13.     And  be  it  further  ena^ed.    That 
the  flandard  for  all  filver  coins  of  the  United 


(       78       ) 


Standard     Statcs,  fliall  be  one  thoufand  four  hundred  and 
for  fiiver    eighty  five  parts  fine  to  one  hundred  and  fe- 

coins— alloy      "      ^     .  ,,  ,  t        i  , 

how  to  be  venty  nine  parts  alloy;  and  accordingly  that 
regulated,  one  thoufaud  four  hundred  and  eighty  five 
parts  in  one  thoufand  fix  hundred  and  fixty 
four  parts  of  the  entire  weight  of  each  of  the 
faid  coins  (hall  confift  of  pure  fiiver,  and  the 
remaining  one  hundred  andfeventy  nine  parts 
of  alloy  ;  which  alloy  fhall  be  wholly  of  copper. 

T'erfons  ^^^'  ^  ^'    ^''^  ^^  ^^  fwther  enaded.    That  it 

may  bring  Aiall  be  lawful  for    any    perlbn  or  perfons  to 

gold  and  fii-  bring  to  the  faid  mint  gold  and  fiiver  bulHon, 

^o  be  coined  ^^  order  to   their  being  coined  ;  and  that   the 

free  of  ex-  bulHon   fo    brought  fliall  be  there  alfayed  and 

^""'^^'        coined  as  fpeedily  as  may  be  after  the  receipt 

thereof,  and  that  free  of  expence   to  the  per- 

fon  or  perfons    by  whom  the  fame  fhall  have 

been  brought.    And  as  foon  as  the  faid  bullion 

fhall  have  been  coined,  the  perfon  or  perfons 

by  whom  the  fame  fliall    have  been  delivered, 

fhall  upon  demand  receive  in  Heu  thereof  coins 

of  the  fame  fpecies  of  bullion  which  fliall  have 

been  fo  delivered,  weight  for  weight,  of  the 

pure  gold  or  pure  fiiver  therein  contained:  Pf^o- 

vided  neverthelefs.  That  it  fhall  be  at  the  mutual 

re°ao?nfay  option  of  the  party  or  parties  bringing  fuch  bul- 

exchange     lioii,  aiid  of  the  dircdor  of  the  faid  mint,  to  make 

toms  there-  ^j^  immediate  exchange  of  coins  for  ftandard 

for,dedii(ft-  ,      ,,.  .   ,  ,     ,      o, 

ing  half  per  buUion,  With  a  deduction  or  one  hair  per  cent 
cent.  from  the  weight  of  the  pure  gold,  or  pure  fii- 

ver contained  in  the  faid  bullion,  as  an  indem- 
nification to  the  mint  for    the  time  which  will 
neceifarily  be  required  for  coining  the  faid  bul- 
lion, and  for  the  advance   which    fhall   have 
dut  of  Se-  ^^^^  ^o  made  in  coins.     And  it  fliall  be  thedu- 
cretary  of  ty  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Treafury  to  furnifh 
h-'iSli"'^     the  faid  mint  from  time  to  time  whenever  the 
flate  of  the  treafiiry  will  admit  thereof,  with 
fuch  funis  as  may  be  neceflary  for  efFeding  the 


(      79      ) 

fald  exchanges,  to  be  replaced  a;>  ipeedily  as 
may  be  out  of  the  coins  which  Ihall  have  been 
made  of  the  bulHon  for  which  the  monies  fo 
furniflied  ihall  have  been  exchanged  ;   and  the  the  half  p-r 
faid  dedudllon  of  one  half  per  cent  (liall  confti- cmttocoul 
tute  a  fund  towards  defraying  the  expenfes  of  f^nd'^^.^* 
the  faid  mint. 

Sec.  15.    And  be  it  further  ehadcd.  That  the  order   of 
bullion  which  fhall  be  brought  as  aforefaid  to  <^t^|'^enng 
the  mint  to  be  coined,  fhall  be  coined,  ?nd  the  perrons'* 
equivalent    thereof  in   coins    rendered,  if  de-  ["i'lgiiig 
manded,  in  the  order  in  which  the  faid  bullion  penaky  on 
fhall   have   been  brought  or  delivered,  giving  giving  un- 
priority  according  to  priority  of  delivery  only,  r"ucrr£J"c. 
and  without    preference  to  any  perfon  or  per- 
perfons   ;    and   if    any    preference    lliall    be 
given  contrary  to  the  diretuioh  aforefaid,  the 
officer  by  whom  fuch  undue  preference  fnall  be 
given,  (hall  in   each  cafe   forfeit  and  pay  one 
thoufand  dollars ;  to  be  recovered  with  cofts 
of  fuit.    And  to  the  end  that  it  may  be  known 
if  fuch  preference  fliall  at  any  time  be  given, 
the  aflayer  or  officer  to  whom  the  faid  bullion 
Ihall  be  delivered  to  be  coined,  Ihall  give  to  the 
perfon  or  perfons  bringing  the  fame,  a  memo- 
randum in  writing  under  his  hand,  denoting 
the  weight,  finenefs  and  value  thereof,  toge- 
ther with  the  day  and  order  of  its  deUvery  into 
the  mint. 

Sec.  16.  And  be  it  further  enafted.    That  all  coJns  made 
the  gold  andfilver  coins  which  fliall  have  been  »  i^^vfui 
ftruck  at,  and  ifiued  from  the  faid  mint,  fliail  ^^'^^'^'' 
be  a  lawful  tender  in  all  payments  whatfoever, 
thofe  of  full  weight  according  to  the  refpeftive 
values  herein  before  declared,  and  thofe  of 
lefs  than  full  weight  at  values  proportional  to 
their  refpedive  weights. 

Sec.  17.    And  he  it  further  ena5led^    That  it 
fhall  be  the  duty  of  the  refpcdive  officers  of 


(       So       ) 

and  to  be  the  faid  mint,  carefully  and  faithfully  to  ufe 

made  con-  their  bcft  cndeavours  that  all  the  gold  and 

SrftiU-  Silver  coins  which  fliall  be  (truck  at  the  faid 

ard  weights  mint  ftiall  be,  as  nearly  as  may  be,  conforma- 

^^'  ble  to  the  feveral  ftandards  and  weights  afore- 

faid,  and  that  the  copper  whereof  the  cents  and 

half  cents  aforefaid  may  be  compofed,  fliall  be 

of  good  quality. 

The  Trca-  Scc.  1 8.  And  the  better  to  fecure  a  due  con- 
furer  to  re-  formity  of  the  faid  gold  and  filver  coins  to  their 
[JjT^jIj^jJ''  refpedive  ftandards.  Be  it  further  ena^ed.  That 
pieces  of  from  cvcry  feparate  mafs  of  ftandard  gold  or 
each  coin    ([[y^j.    ^v^jch  Ihall  be  made  into  coins  at  the 

to  DC  ali«iy- 

ed .  faid  mint,  there  fhall  be  taken,  fet  apart  by  the 

Treafurer  and  referved  in  his  cuftody  a  certain 
number  of  pieces,  not  lefs  than  three,  and  that 
once  in  every  year  the  pieces  fo  fet  apart  and 
referved,  fliall  be  affayed  under  the  infpection 
when  and  of  the  Chief  Juftice  of  the  United  Stales,  the 
by^  whom,  Secretary  and  Comptroller  of  the  Treafury,  the 
Secretary  for  the  Department  of  State,  and  the 
Attorney  General  of  the  United  States  (who 
-are  hereby  required  to  attend  for  that  purpofe  at 
the  faid  mint,  on  the  laft  Monday  in  July  in 
each  year)  or  under  the  infpeclion  of  any  three 
of  them,  in  fuch  manner  as  they  or  a  majority 
of  them  fnall  dired,  and  in  the  prefence  of  the 
diretlor,  affayer  and  chief  coiner  of  the  faid 
mint ;  and  if  it  (l:iall  be  found  that  the  gold  and 
filver  fo  aiTayed,  fliall  not  be  inferior  to  their  re- 
fpedive  ftandards  herein  before  declared  more 
than  one  part  in  one  hundred  and  forty  four 
parts,  the  officer  or  officers  of„the  faid  mint 
whom  it  may  concern  fliail  be  held  excufable ; 
but  if  any  greater  inferiority  fhall  appear,  it 
fhall  be  certified  to  the  Prefident  of  the  United 
States,  and  the  faid  ofHcer  or  officers  fliall  be 
deemed  difqualified  to  hold  their  refpeclive 
offices. 


(       8'       ) 

Sec.  19.  And  be  it  further  enabled.  That  if  penaUy  on 
any  of  the  gold  or  filver  coins  which  fliall  be  debafmg 
ftruck  or  coined  at  the  faid  mint  fhall  be  debafed 
or  made  worfe  as  to  the  proportion  of  fine  gold 
or  fine  filver  therein  contained,  or  fhall  be  of  lefs 
weight  or  value  than  the  fame  ought  to  be  purfu- 
ant  to  the  directions  of  this  a6l,  through  the  de- 
fault or  with  the  connivance  of  any  of  the  officers 
or  perfons  who  fhall  be  employed  at  the  faid  mint, 
for  the  purpofe  of  profit  or  gain,  or  otherv/ife 
with  a  fraudulent  intent,  and  if  any  of  the  faid 
officers  or  perfons  fhall  embezzle  any  of  the  me- 
tals which  fhall  at  any  time  be  committed  to  their 
charge  for  the  purpofe  of  being  coined,  or  any 
of  the  coins  which  fliall  be  flruck  or  coined  at 
the  faid  mint,  every  fuch  officer  or  perfon  who 
fliall  commit  any  or  either  of  the  faid  offences, 
fliall  be  deemed  guilty  of  felony,  and  fliall  fuffer 
death. 

Sec.  20.  And  be  it  further  enaSfed^    That  the  Money  of 
money  of  account  of  the  United  States  fhall  be  account  to 
expreffed  in  dollars  or  units,  difmes  or  tenths,  ^^^^  ^-^^^a- 
cents  or  hundredths,  and  milles  or  thoufandths,  krs,  &c, 
a  difme  being  the  tenth  part  of  a  dollar,  a  cent 
the  hundredth  part  of  a  dollar,  a  mille  the  thou- 
fandth  part  of  a  dollar,  and  that  all  accounts  in 
the  public  offices  and  all  proceedings  in  the 
courts   of  the  United  States  fhall  be  kept  and 
had  in  conformity  to  this  regulation. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the 
Houfe  of  Repreftntatives. 

JOHN  ADAMS,   Vice- Prefidcnt  of  the  United 
States  and  Prefident  of  the  Senate. 
Approved,  April  the  fecond,  1792. 

G^  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  oj  the  United  States, 


(       82       ) 
CHAPTER     XVII. 

An  ACT fuppkmentary  to  the  a6l  for  the  ejtablijhment  and 
Jupport  of  Light-houjes ,  Beacons,  Buoys,  and  Public  Piers, 

Ex  encesof '^^^'  ^*  J\^^  it  enadecl  by  the  Seriate  and  Houfe  of 
beacons  &c  Reprefeutatives  of  the  United  States  of 

*°n  ^ir"^  y^/7z^r/V^  in  Congrefs  ajjembled.  That  all  expenfes 
J793'"  ^  which  fhall  accrue  from  the  firfl  day  of  July  next, 
inclufively,  for  the  neceiTary  fupporr,  mainte- 
nance, and  repairs  of  all  Hght-houfes,  beacons, 
buoys,  the  ftakeage  of  channels,on  the  fea  coaft, 
and  public  piers,  fhall  continue  to  be  defrayed 
by  the  United  States,  until  the  iirft  day  of  July, 
in  the  year  one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and 
ninety-three,  notwithftandingfuch  light-houfes, 
beacons,  or  public  piers,  with  the  lands  and 
tenements  thereunto  belonging,  and  the  jurif- 
diftion  of  the  fame,  (hall  not  in  the  mean  time 
be  ceded  to,  or  vefted  in  the  United  States,  by 
the  ftate  or  ftates  refpeftively,  in  which  the 
fame  may  be,  and  that  the  faid  time  be  further 
allowed,  to  the  ftates  refpedively  to  make  fuch 
ceffion. 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  ena&ed.  That    the 

beSons^to  Secretary  of  the  Treafury   be  authorized  to 

be  placed  at  caufe  to    bc  provided,  ereOied,  and  placed,  a 

hibor^^nd  floating  beacon,  and  as  many  buoys,  as  may 

chefapeak   be  necefTary  for   the  fecurity  of  navigation,  at, 

^^"f-  and  near  the  entrance  of  the  harbor  of  Charlef- 

ton,  in  the  ftate  of  South-Carolina.     And  alfo 

to  have  affixed  three  floating  beacons  in  the  bay 

of  Chefapeak  ;  one  at  the  north  end  of  WiU 

loughby's  Spit,  another  at  the  tail  of  the  Horfe- 

Shoe  ;     and  the  third    on  the  ftioaleft  place  of 

the  middle  ground. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the 
Houfe  of  Reprefeutatives, 

JOHN  ADAMS,  Vice- Pre  ftdent  of  the  United 
States,  and  Prefident  of  the  Senate. 
Approved,  April  twelfth,  1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States. 


(       8,5      ) 
CHAPTER    XVIII. 

An  ACT  to  ered   a  Light-houj'c   on   Montok  point  m  the 
flatc  of  New-York. 


B 


E  //  enacted  by  the  Senate  andHoufe  of  Repre-  j_  j  J,^I,o^f 
fentatives  of  the  United  States  of  America,  in  on 


certain 


Congrefs  affemhlcd.  That  as  foon  as  the  jurifdic-  to'jfjtu'if 
tion  of  fuch  land  on  Montok  point  in  the  flate  on  Moutok 
of  New  York  as  the  Prefident  of  the  United  P"'"'^,'^ 
States  fliall  deem  fufficient  and  mod  proper  for 
the  convenience  and  accommodation  of  a  light 
houfe  fliall  have  been  ceded  to  the  United 
States  it  fhall  be  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  of 
the  Treafury,  to  provide  by  contraft  which 
fhall  be  approved  by  the  Prefident  of  the  United 
States,  for  building  a  light  houfe  thereon,  and 
for  furnifliing  the  fame  with  all  neceffary  fup- 
plies,  and  alfo  to  agree  for  the  falarics  or  wa- 
ges of  the  perfon  or  perfons  who  may  be  ap- 
pointed by  the  Prefident  for  the  fuperintend- 
ance  and  care  of  the  fame  ;  and  the  Prefident 
is  hereby  authorized  to  make  the  faid  appoint- 
ments. That  the  number  and  difpofition  of 
the  lights  in  the  faid  light  houfe  fhall  be  fuch  as 
may  tend  to  didinguifh  it  from  others,  and  a3 
far  as  is  practicable,  prevent  miftakes. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  tin 
Houjt  of  Reprefcntative^. 

JOHN  ADAMS,  Vice- Prefident  of  the  United 
States,  and  Prefi(Unt  of  the  Senate. 
Approved,  April  twelfth,  1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States, 


CHAPTER     XIX. 

An  ACT  for  afcertaining  the  Bounds  of  a  Traci  of  Land 
purchafed  by  John  Cleves  Symmes. 

BE    //   enaBed  by  the   Senate  and  Hoife  of 
Reprefentatives     of   the   United   States   of 
America^  in  Congrefs  affembkd.  That  the  Pre- 


(      84      ) 

Bounds  of  ^i^^'^^  °^  *^^  United  States  be  and  he  here. 
Tohn  c     by  is  authorized  at  the  requefl:  of  John  Cleves 
^^"'w'  f  Synimes  or  his  agent  or  agents,  to  alter  the 
und :        contrad  made  between  the  late  board  of  trea- 
fury  and   the  faid    John   Cleves  Symmes    for 
the  fale  of  a  trad  of  land  of  one  million  of  acres, 
in  fuch  manner  that  the  faid  trad  may  extend 
from  the  mouth  of  the  Great  Miami,  to  the 
mouth  of  the  Little  Miami,  and  be  bounded  by 
the  river  Ohio,  on  the  fouth,  by  the  Great  Mi- 
ami on  the  weft,  by  the  Little  Miami  on  the 
eaft,  and  by  a  parallel  of  latitude  on  the  north 
extending  from  the  Great  Miami  to  the  Little 
Miami,  fo  as  to  comprehend  the  propofed  quan- 
tity of  one  million  of  acres,  provided  that  the 
northern  limits  of  the  faid  trad  fhall  not  inter- 
fere with  the  boundary  line  eftabliflied  by  the 
treaty  of  fort  Harmar,between  theUnitedStates, 
rvation  ^^^  ^^^  Indian  nations,  and  provided  alfo  that 
of  lands  at  the  Prefident  referve  to  the  United  States,  fuch 
Wafliing-    lantjs  at  and  near  fort  Wafhington  as  he  may 
think  neceflary  for  the  accommodation  of  a  gar- 
rifon  at  that  fort. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the 

Houfe  of  Reprefentatives. 
JOHN   ADAMS,    Vice- Prefident  of  the  United 
States,  and  Prefident  of  the  SenrUe. 

Approved,  April  twelfth,  1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States. 


CHAPTER     XX. 

An  aElforfxing  the  Compenfations  of  the  Doorkeepers  of  the 
Senate  and  Houje  of  Reprefentatives  in  Cpngrefs. 

Fl  E  it  enabled  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of  Re- 
'-  prefentatives  of  the  United  States  of  ^America, 
in  Congrefs  affcmhkd^  That  from  and  after  the 
termination  of  the  prefent  fefTion  of  Congrefs, 
the  doorkeepers  of  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of 


(      85       ) 

Reprefentatives,  fhall  each  be  allowed  a  falary  salary  of 
of  five  hundred  dollars  per  annum,  in  full  com-  *^"o''  '''^'=p* 
penfation  for  their  fervices  in  the  laid  ofiices  ;  gref"  after 
and  that  the  alliftant  doorkeeper  to  each  Houfe  prctent  fef> 
Ihall  be  allowed  in    full  compenfation   for  all 
his  fervices,  the  fum  of  lour  hundred   and  fifty 
dollars  per   annum.     And  it  fliall  be  the  duty 
of  the  faid    doorkeepers   to  do  the  ufual  fervi- 
ces pertaining  to  their  refpective  offices  during 
thefefiion  of  Congrefs,  and  in  the  recefs,  under 
the  direction   of  the  Secretary  of  the    Senate 
and  Clerk  of  the  Houfe  of  Reprefentatives,  to 
take  care  of  the  apartments  occupied  by  the 
refpeclive  Houfes,  and  provide  fuel  and   other 
accomodations   for    their    fubfequent    fefiion. 
And  the  faid  compenfations   ihall  be  certified 
and  paid  in  like  manner  as  is  provided  by  law, 
for  the  other  officers  of  the  Senate  and  Houfe 
of  Reprefentatives. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Sp-'.aker  of  ths 
Houfe  of  Rcprefentahves. 

JOHN   ADAMS,   Vice- Prefdevt  of  the  United 
States,  and  Prejident  of  the  Senate, 

Approved,   April  twelfth,  1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States. 

CHAPTER     XXI. 

An  ACT  for  altering  the  times  of  holding  the  Circuit  Courts^ 
in  certain  difriCls  of  the  United  States,  and  for  other 
purpofes. 

Sec.   I .   T^E  //  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe 
ofReprefcntaii-ves  of  the  United  States 
cf  America,  in  Congrefs  affembled.  That  from  and  ^-^^^^  f^^ 
after  the  paffing  of  this  act  the  circuit  courts  holding cir- 
in  the  diltricts  of  North  Carolina  and  Georgia  [^''^^J^'^'' 
ihall  be  held  as  follovvs  to  wit :  in  the  diilrid  diAri^is  al- 
of  North-Carolina  on  the  firfl  day  of  June  and  '^f^^- 
the  thirtieth  dav  of  November  at  Newbcrn  in 


(      86      ) 

the  prefent  and  each  fucceeding  year.  And  all 
writs  and  recognizances  returnable  and  fuits 
and  other  proceedings  that  were  continued  to 
the  circuit  court  for  the  diHricl  of  North-Caro- 
lina on  the  eighteenth  day  of  June  next  fhall 
now  be  returned  and  held  continued  to  the 
fame  court  on  the  firft:  day  of  June  next.  In 
the  diftrift  of  Georgia  on  the  twenty-fifth  day 
of  April  at  Savannah  and  on  the  eighth  day 
of  November  at  Augufta  in  the  prefent  and  each 
fucceeding  year  except  when  any  of  thofe  days 
fhall  happen  on  a  Sunday  in  which  cafe  the  court 
fhall  be  held  on  the  Monday  following. 

When  fef-  ^^^'  ^'  ^^^  ^^  ^^  further  ejiaded.  That  the 
Cons  or  the  fcffions  of  the  circuit  courts  in  the  eaftern  circuit 
^'!^'^'"  *^"' ^^^^  in  the  prefent  and  every  fucceeding  year 

CUlt      li)uli  I*  P11*  1*  r 

commence,  commence  at  the  tmies  roUowmg,  that  is  to  lay, 
in  New-York  diftrid  on  the  fifth  day  of  April 
and  the  fifth  day  of  September.  In  Connedlicutt 
diftri£t  on  the  twenty-fifth  day  of  April  and  the 
twenty-fifth  day  of  September.  In  Maflachufetts 
diflrid  on  the  twelfth  day  of  May  and  the 
twelfth  day  of  Odlober.  In  New-Hampfliire  di- 
flrict  on  the  twenty-fourth  day  of  May  and  the 
twenty-fourth  day  of  06lober  and  in  Rhode- 
Ifland  diftrift  on  the  feventh  day  of  June  and 
the  feventh  day  of  November  except  when  any 
of  thofe  days  fhall  happen  on  a  Sunday  and 
then  the  feffions  fliall  commence  on  the  next 
day  following.  And  the  feffions  of  the  circuit 
court  fhall  be  held  in  the  diftrid  of  Virginia  at 
the  city  of  Richmond  only.  In  New-Hampfhire 
diftridl  at  Portfmouth  and  Exeter  alternately, 
beginning  at  the  firft.  In  Maifachufetts  diftridt 
at  Bofuon.  In  Rhode-Ifland  diftrid  at  New-Port 
and  Providence  alternately  beginning  at  the  firft. 
In  Connefticutt  diflrift  at  Hartford  and  New- 
Haven  alternately,  beginning  at  the  laft.  And 
in  New-York  diitrid  at  the  city  of  New- York 
only. 


(      87      ) 

Sec.  3.  And  be  it  enaBed^  That  at  each  feflion  judges  of 
ofthefupreme  court  of  the  United  States  or  as  ^"F""- <^«"J.' 
foon  after  as  may  be,  the  judges  of  the  fupreme  %^^\q  de- 
court  attending  at  fuch  feflion  Ihall  in  writing  tenninc  the 
fubfcribed  with  their  names  (which  writing  (hall  3|'^*'"|.'f"^p: 
be  lodged  with  the  clerk  of  the  fupreme  court  tively  »oat- 
and  fafely  kept  in  his  office)  aflign  to  the  faid  tend,  &c. 
judges  refpeclively  the  circuits  which  they  are 
to  attend  at  the  eiifuing  feflions  of  the    circuit 
courts  ;  which  affignment  fhall  be  made  in  fuch 
ma-nner  that  no  judge,  unlefs  by  his  own  con- 
fent  (Iiall  have  affigned  to  him  any  circuit  which 
he  hath  already  attended  until  the  fame  hath 
been  afterwards  attended  by  every   other  of  the 
faid  judges.    Provided  always^  That  if  the  pub- 
lic fcrvice  or  the  convenience  of  the  judges  Ihall 
at  any  time,  in  their  opinion,    require  a  difi'er- 
ent  arrangement,  the  fame  may  take  place  with 
the   confent  of  any  four  of  the  judges  of  the 
fupreme  court. 

Sec.  4.  And  he  it  further  enad.cd^  That    the  jj^j^^^^  ^j. 
diftrift  court  for  the  diftrict  of  Maine,  which,  Maine  dif- 
by  the  a6t,  intituled  "  An  acl  to  eitablifh  the  'f'^' 
judicial  courts  of  the   United  States,"  is   hol- 
den  on  the  firft  Tuefday  of  June,    annually,  at 
Portland,  (hall,    from  and  after  the  paffing  of 
this  a£t,  be  holden  on  the  third  Tuefday  of 
June,  annually,  any  thing  in  the  aft  aforefaid 
to  the  contrary  notwithflanding  :  and  all  writs 
and  recognizances  returnable,   and   fuits  and 
other  proceedings,   that  were  continued  to  the 
diftrift  court  for  the  diilricl  of  Maine    on  the 
firfl  Tuefday  of  June  next,  fliall  now  be  return- 
able and  held  continued  to  the  fame  court,   on 
the  third  Tuefday  of  June  next. 

Sec.  5.  And  he  it  further  enaded.    That  the  and  of  N. 
dated  diftrict  courts  for  the  didrift  of  North-  Carolina, 
Carolina,  fhall  in  future,  be  held  at  the  towns  '^'^'^^' 
of  Ncwbern,  Wilmington  and  Edenton  in  rota- 


(       88       ) 

tion,  beginning  at  Newbern,  as  the  faid  court 
now  Hands  adjourned. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Sptaker  of  the 

Houfe  of  Reprefentatives. 
JOHN  ADAMS,    Vke-Prejideni  of  the  Uni- 
ted Stales,  and  Prefident  oj  the  Senate. 

Approved,  April   thirteenth,'  1792. 

G^  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States. 


CHAPTER     XXII. 

An  ACT  to  compenfate  the  Corporation  of  Trujiees  of  the 
Public  Grammar-School  and  Academy  of  Wilmington  in  the 
State  of  Delaware,  for  the  occupation  of,  and  damages  done 
to  thefaid  School,  during  the  late  war. 


B 


E  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of  Re- 
prefentatives of  the  United  States  of  America 
Compenfa-  ^^  Cougrcfs  affcmbled.  That  as  an  indemnification 
tionaiiow'd  to  the  corporation  of  Truftees  of  the  pubHc 
Wilming-   arammar-fchooi  and  academy  of  Wilmington  in 
mj/"   "  the  (late  of  Delaware,  for  the  ufe  and  occupa- 
tion of  the  faid  fchool,  and  the  damages  done  to 
the  fame  by  the  troops  of  the  United  States, 
during  the  late  war,  there  be  granted  to  th-e 
faid  corporation  of  Truftees,  a  reafonable  com- 
penfation,  payable  out  of  any  unappropriated 
money  in  the  treafury  of  the  United  States, 
which  compenfation  fliall  be  afcertained  by  the 
accounting  officers  of  the  treafury. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the 

Houje  of  Reprefentatives, 
JOHN  ADAMS,  Vice- Prefident  of  the  United 
States,  and  Prefident  of  the  Senate. 
Appkoved,  April  thirteenth,   1792. 

G^:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States. 


accoraingto 
lit.  enu- 
meration. 


(       Sg       ) 
CHAPTER     XXin. 

An  ACT  for  apportioning  Reprefentatives  among  thefeveral 
States,  according  to  thejirji  enumeration, 

BE  //  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of  Re-  Anprrtion- 
prefentatives  of  the  United  States  of  Americ.r,  mom  of  rc- 
in  Congrefs  affemhled.  That  from  and  after  the  pf^'^'"^- 
thirdday  of  March  one  thouland  feven  hundred  congrefs 
and  ninety-three,  the  Houfe  of  Reprefentatives 
(hall  be  compofed  of  members  elected  agreea- 
bly to  a  ratio  of  one  member  for  every  thirty- 
three  thoufand  perfons  in  each  flate,  computed 
according  to  the  rule  prefcribed  by  the  Confti- 
tution  ;  that  is  to  fay  :  Within  the  (late  of 
New-Hampfliire,  four  ;  within  the  ftate  of 
MalTachufetts,  fourteen  ;  within  the  (late  of 
Vermont,  two ;  within  the  (late  of  Rhode-Illand, 
two  ;  within  the  ftate  of  Connecticut,  feven  ; 
within  the  Hate  of  New- York,  ten  ;  within  the 
flate  of  New-Jerfey,  five  ;  within  the  Hate  of 
Pennfylvania,  thirteen  ;  within  the  flate  of  De- 
laware, one  ;  within  the  flate  of  Maryland, 
eight  ;  within  the  flate  of  Virginia,  nineteen  ; 
within  the  flate  of  Kentucky,  two  ;  within  the 
ftate  of  North-Carolina,  ten  ;  within  the  llate  of 
South-Carolina,  fix  ;  and  within  the  ftate  of 
Georgia,  two  members. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the  Houfe 
of  Repnfntatives. 

JOHN  ADAMS,  Vice- Pre fident  of  the  United  States^ 
and  Prefidentofthe  Senate. 

Approved,   April  fourteenth,    1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefidcnt  of  the  United  States* 


M 


(       90       )^ 
CHAPTER'   XXIV. 

An  ACT   concerning  Conusls  a?^^  Vi ce-Consuls. 

FOR  carrying  into  full  effect  the  convention 
between  the  King  of  the  French,  and  the 
United  States  of  America,  entered  into  for  the 
.    purpofe  of  defining  and  eftabliihing  the  func- 
tions and  privileges  of  their  refpedive  Confuls 
and  Vice  Confuls  ; 

Duty  of  ^^^'    ^'     -^^  ^^  enabled  by  the  Senate  and 

Confuls  &  Houfe  of   Reprefentatives    of  the    United  States 
did.  Judges    r  America  in   Convrefs   aljembled.  That  where 
wrecks.      m  the  leventh  aj-ticle   ot    the  laid  convention, 
it  is  agreed  that  when  there  fliall  be  no  con- 
ful  or  vice  conful  of  the  King  of  the  French, 
to  attend  to  the  faving  of  the*  wreck    of  any 
French  veflels  flranded   on  the  coafls   of  the 
United  States,  or  that  the  refidence  of  the  faid 
conful,   or  vice  conful   (he   not   being  at    the 
place  of  the  wreck)  ihall  be  more  diflant  from 
the  faid  place  than  that  of  the  competent  judge 
of  the  country,  the  latter  fhall  immediately  pro- 
ceed to  perform  the  office  therein  prefcribed  ; 
the  diftrift  judge  of  the  United  States  of  the  di- 
ilrid  in  which  the  wreck  ihall  happen,  Inall 
proceed  therein,  according  to  the  tenor  of  the 
laid  article.     And  in  fuch  cafes  it  fhall  be  the 
duty  of  the  officers  of  the  cuftoms  within  whofe 
diftricls  fuch  v/recks  ihall  happen,  to  give  notice 
thereof,  as  foon  as  may  be,  to  the  laid  judge, 
and  to  aid  and  affift  him  to  perform  the  duties 
hereby  affigned  to  him.     The  diflrict  judges 
of  the  United  States  ffiall  alfo,  within  their  re- 
fpedive  diflricts  be  the  competent  judges,   for 
the  purpofes  expreiTcd  in  the  ninth  article  of 
the  faid  convention,  and  it  fhall  be  incumbent 
on  them  to  give  aid  to  the  confuls  and  vice  con- 
fuls of  the  King  of  the  French,  in  arrefting 
and  fecuiing  deferters  from  veffels  of  the  French 
nation  according  to  the  tenor  of  the  faid  article. 


iC     91     ) 

And  where  by  any  article  of  the  faid  Con-  ^"ty  "f 
vention,  the  confuls  and  vice  confuls  of  the 
King  of  the  French,  are  entitled  to  the  aid  of 
the  competent  executive  officers  of  the  country, 
in  the  execution  of  any  precept,  the  marlhals  of 
the  United  States,  and  their  deputies,  fliall, 
within  their  refpeflive  diflricls  be  the  compe- 
tent officers,  and  fhall  give  their  aid  according 
to  the  tenor  of  the  flipulations. 

And  whenever  commitments  to  the  jails  of  T^,.„e 
the  country  fliall  become  neceffary  in  purfu-  commit- 
ance  of  any  ftipulation  of  the  faid  Convention,  f'*^"^^/"'"^ 
they  ihall  be  to  fuch  jails  within  the  refpeQive 
diltricls  as  other  commitments  under  the  au- 
thority of  the  <United  States  are  by  law  made. 

And  for  the  direftion  of  the  confuls  and  vice 
confuls  of  the  United  States  in  certain  cafes. 

Sec.  2.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  authority  aforefaid^  Right  of 
That  they  (hall  have  right  in  the  ports  or  pla-  ConfuUand 
ces  to  which  they  are  or  may  be  feverally  ap-  fuh, 
pointed  of  receiving  the  protefts  or  declara- 
tions,   which   fuch   captains,   mafters,   crews, 
palfengers  and  merchants,  as  are  citizens  of  the 
United  States  may  refpeclively  chufe  to  make 
there  ;  and  alfo   fuch   as  any   foreigner  may 
chufe  to  make  before  them  relative  to  the  per- 
fonal  intereft  of  any  citizens  of  the  United 
States  ;  and  the  copies  of  the  faid  acts  duly  au- 
thenticated by  the  faid  confuls  or  vice  confuls, 
under  the  feal  of  their  confulates,  refpeclively, 
fliall  receive  faith  in  law,  equally  as  their  ori- 
ginals v/ould  in  all  courts  in  the  United  States. 
It  ffiall  be  their  duty  v/here  the  laws  of  the 
country  permit,  to  take  poifeffion  of  the  per- 1.^    take 
fonal  eftatc  left  by  any  citizen  of  the  United  p„!fo°nji*' 
States,  other  than  feamen  belonging  to  any  fhip  eaates  of 


deceafed 


or  veflfel  who  Ihall  die  within  their  confulate  ;  ^^™° 
leaving  there  no  legal  reprefeutative,  partner 


&\c 


To  colleft 


(      92      ) 

in  trade  or  truftee  by  him  appointed  to  take 
care  of  his  elfeds,  they   fliall  inventory  the 
fame  with  the  afTiftance  of  two  merchants  of 
the  United  States,  or  for  want  of  them,  of  any 
others  at  their  choice ;  {hall  colled:  the  debts 
debts,  &c    due  to  the  decealed  in  the  country  where   he 
n.uSance  ^^^^^  ^"^  P^Y  ^^'^  ^^^bts  duc  from  his  efiate 
tothe'irea   which  he  fhall  have  there  contracted  ;  ihall  fell 
u'^siinot  ^^  auction  after  realonable  public  notice  fuch 
called  for  by  part  of  the  cilatc  as  fhall  be  of  a  perilhable  na- 
fTa  iv^"^^  ^^^^  ^^^  ^^^'^  further  part,  if  any,  as  Ihall  be 
neceffary  for  the  payment  of  his  debts,  and  at 
the  expiration  of  one  year  from  his  decer.fe, 
the  refidae;  and  the  balance  of  the  eftate  they 
fliall  tranfmit  to  the  treafury  of  the   United 
States,  to  be  holden  in  trufl  for  the  legal  claim- 
ants. But  if  at  any  time  before  fuch  tranfmif- 
fion,  the  legal  reprefentative  of  the  deceafed 
fhall  appear  and  demand  his  effects   in   their 
hands,  they  fhall  deliver  them  up,  being  paid 
their  fees,  and  fhall  ceafe  their  proceedings. 

For  the  information  of  the  reprefentative 
of  the  deceafed,  it  flrall  be  the  duty  of  the 
gazc^tte  pu-  conful  or  vice  conful  authorized  to  proceed 
SIf  confui-  ^^  aforefaid  in  the  fettlement  of  his  efiate,  im- 
atc.  mediately  to  notify  his  death  in  one  of  the  ga- 

zettes publifhed  in  the  confulate,  and  alfo  to 
the  Secretary  of  State,  that  the  fame  may  be 
notified  in  the  fiate  to  which  the  deceafed 
fliall  belong  ;  and  he  fliall  alfo,  as  foon  as  may 
be,  tranfmit  to  the  Secretary  of  State,  an  in- 
ventory of  the  efieds  of  the  deceafed  taken  as 
before  direcEted. 

Duty  as  to  Scc.  3.  And  he  it  further  enacled.  That  the 
JeiTeit'^  f^id  confuls  and  vice  confuls,  in  cafes  where 
fhips  or  veffels  of  the  United  States  fhall  be 
flrarided  on  the  coafts  of  their  confulates  re- 
fpeclively,  ihall,  as  far  as  the  laws  of  the  coun- 
try will  perraitj  take  proper  meafures,  as  well 


Conful  to 
notify  the 
death  in  a 


(       93       ) 

for  the  purpofe  of  faving  the  faid  (hips  or  veflels, 
their  cargoes  and  appurtenances,  as  for  floring 
and  fecuring  the  effects  and  merchandize  fa- 
ved,  and  for  taking  an  inventory  or  inventories 
thereof  ;  and  the  merchandize  and  effe£lsfaved 
with  the  inventory  or  inventories  thereof  taken 
as  aforefaid,  (hall,  after  deducing  therefrom 
the  expenfe,  be  delivered  to  the  owner  or  own- 
ers. Provided,  That  no  conful  or  vice  conful 
fhall  have  authority  to  take  polfeffion  of  any 
f  uch  goods,  wares,  merchandize  or  other  pro- 
perty, when  the  mafter,  owner  or  confignee 
thereof  is  prefent  or  capable  of  taking  poffeffion 
of  the  fame. 

Sec.  4.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  it  Ihall  Fees. 
and  may  be  lawful  for  every  conful  and  vice 
conful  of  the  United  States,  to  take  and  receive 
the  following  fees   of  office   for    the   fervices 
which  he  fliall  have  performed. 

For  authenticating  under  the  confular  feal, 
every  proted,  declaration,  depofition,  or  other 
aft,  which  fuch  captains,  mafters,  mariners, 
feamen,  paffengers,  merchants  or  others  as  are 
citizens  of  the  United  States  may  refpe£lively 
cl'uife  to  make,  the  fum  of  two  dollars. 

For  the  taking  into  poffeffion,  inventorying, 
felling  and  finally  fettling  and  paying,  or  tranl- 
mitting  as  aforefaid,  the  balance  due  on  the  per- 
fonal  eftate  left  by  any  citizen  of  the  United 
States  who  ffiall  die  within  the  limits  of  his  con- 
fulate  five  per  centum  on  the  grofs  amount  of 
fuch  eftate. 

For  taking  into  poffeffion  and  otherwife  pro- 
ceeding on  any  fuch  eftate  which  fhall  be  deli- 
vered over  to  the  legal  reprefentative  before  a 
final  fettlement  of  the  fame,  as  is  herein  before 
directed  two  and  an  half  per  centum  on  fuch 
part  d-eiivered  over  as  Ihall  not  be  in  money,  and 
five  per  centum  on  the  grofs  amount  of  the  re- 
lidue. 


(       9+       ) 

Confuis  lo       And  it  fhall  be  the  duty  of  the  confuls  and 
Sm"  ^'''  vice-confuls  of  the  United  States,  to  give  re- 
ceipts for  all   fees  which  they  fhall  receive  by 
virtue  of    this  aft,   exprefTmg    the    particular 
fervices  for  which  they  are  paid. 

fn'hotized       ^^^'  •5*  ^"^  ^^  ^^  further  enaded.  That  in 
to  gram  a  cafc  it  be  found  neceffary  for  theinterefl  of  the 
faiary    to   United  States,  that  a  conful  or  confuls  be  ap- 
Ea"bary. '"  poi^ted  to  refidc  on  the  coaft   of  Barbary,  the 
Prefident  be  authorized  to  allow  an  annual  fa- 
iary, not  exceeding  two  thoufand    dollars  to 
edcti  perfon  fo  to  be  appointed  :  Provided^  That 
fuch  faiary  be  not  allowed  to  more  than  one  con- 
ful for  any  one  of  the  flates  on  the  faid  coaft. 
Confuls  to       Sec.  6.  And  he  it  further  enafted.  That  every 
with  furc-  conful  and  vice  conful  fnall,  before  they  enter 
ties  to  be  on  the  execution  of  their  trufts,  or  if  already  in 
b^^thrse-  ^^^  execution  of  the  fame,  within  one  year  from 
cretary  of  thc  pafihig  of  thls  aft,  or  if  refident  in   Afia, 
within  two  years,  give  bond  with  fuch  fureties  as 
fhall  be  approved  by  the  Secretary  of  State,  in 
a  fum  of  not  lefs  than  two  thoufand  nor  more 
than  ten  thoufand  dollars,  conditioned  for  the 
true  and  faithful  difcharge  of  the  duties  of  his 
office  according  to  law,  and  alfo  for  truly  ac- 
counting for  all  monies,  goods  and  eifefts  which 
may  come  into  his  pofTcfTion  by  virtue  of  this 
where  to  be  ^^'  ^^d  the  faid  bond  fliall  be  lodged  in  the 
lodgsd.       office  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Treafury. 

Provifion         Sec.  7.  And  be  it  further  enabled.    That   to 

fer  muri-  prcvcnt  the  mariners  and  feamen,  employed  in 

fordgf '"  velfels    belonging   to    citizens    of   the  United 

portb"!         States,  in  cafes  of  fliipwreck,  ficknefs  or  capti> 

vity,  from  fuffering  in  foreign  ports,   it  ffiall  be 

the  duty  of  the  confuls  and  vice  confuls  refpec- 

tively,  from  time  to  time  to  provide  for  them  in 

the  moft  reafonable  manner,  at  the  expenfe  of 

the  United  States,  fubjeft  to  fuch  inltruftions 

as  the   Secretary  of  State  fhall  give,  and  not 


State ; 


(      95      ) 

exceeding  an  allowance  of  twelve  cents  to  a  man 
per  diem  ;  and  all  mailers  and  commanders  of 
veffels  belonging  to  citizens  of  the  United 
States,  and  bound, to  fome  port  of  the  fame,  are 
hereby  required  and  enjoined  to  take  fuch  ma- 
riners or  leamen  on  board  of  their  fliips  or  vef- 
fels, at  the  requefl:  of  the  faid  confuls  or  vice 
confuls  refpedively,  and  to  tranfport  them  to 
the  port,  in  the  United  States  to  which  fuch 
fhips  or  veffels  may  be  bound  free  of  cofts  or 
charge  ;  but  that  the  faid  mariners  or  feamen 
fhall,  if  able,  be  bound  to  do  duty  on  board 
fuch  fliips  or  veffels  according  to  their  feveral 
abilities :  Provided,  That  no  mailer  or  captain 
of  any  (hip  or  vefiel,  fhall  be  obliged  to  take  a 
greater  number  than  tv/o  men  to  every  one 
hundred  tons  burthen  of  the  faid  fliip  or  velfel, 
on  anyone  voyage  :  and  if  any  fuch  captain  or 
mailer  fhall  refufe  the  fame  on  the  requefl  or 
order  of  the  conful  or  vice  conful,  fuch  captain 
or  mailer  fliall  forfeit  and  pay  the  fum  of  thirty 
dollars  for  each  mariner  or  feaman  fo  rcfufed, 
to  be  recovered  for  the  benefit  of  the  United 
States  by  the  faid  conful  or  vice  conful  in  his 
own  name,  in  any  court  of  competent  jurif- 
ditlion. 

Sec.  8.  And  be  it  further  enocled,T\'i2it\vh<cxe  ^^,^     ^^ 
a  fliip  or  veffel   belonging   to  citizens  of  the  maficrs  of 
United  States  is  fold  in  a  foreign  port  or  place,  ^^^JJ';''/*^^' 
the  mailer,  uniefs  the  crew  are  liable  by  their  diargedica* 
contraft  or  do  confent  to  be  difchargcd  there,  i^jen -.nd  of 
fhall  fend    them  back  to  the  fiate  where  they'^i^'x{J!;g"t^' 
entered  on  board,  or  furnifh  them  with  means 
fuflicient  for  their  return,  to    be  afcertained  by 
the  conful  or  vice  conful  of  the  United  States, 
having  jurifdidion  of  the  port  or  place.     And 
in  cafe  of  the    mailers   refufal,  the  faid  conful 
or  vice  conful  may  (if  the  laws  of  the  land  per- 
mit it)  caufe  his  ihip,  goods  and  perfon  to  be 


fined, 


(     96     ) 

airefted  and  held  until  he  fhall  comply  with  his 
duty  herein. 

Powers  dc-  Sec.  9.  And  be  it  further  enabled.  That  the 
fpecification  of  certain  powers  and  duties,  in  this 
acl,  to  be  exercifed  or  performed  by  the  confuls 
and  vice  confuls  of  the  United  States,  fhall  not 
be  conftrued  to  the  exclufion  of  others  refult- 
ing  from  the  nature  of  their  appointments,  or 
any  treaty  or  convention  under  which  they 
may  adt. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the 
Houfe  of  Reprejentatives. 

JOHN  ADAMS,  Vice-Prefident  of  the  United 

States,  and  Prefident  of  the  Senate. 

Approved,  April  fourteenth,   1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States, 

CHAPTER     XXV. 

An  ACT  authorizing  the  grant  and  conveyance  of  certain 
Lands  to  the  Ohio  Company  of  Affbciates. 

Sec.  i."|3  E  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of 
Certam  fe^  Reprefentatives  of  the  UnitedStates  of 

comracfted  ^^^^^^ica  in  Congrefs  affembled.  That  a  certain 
for  in  1787  contract  expreffed  in  an  indenture  executed  on 
the  twenty  feventh  day  of  Odober,  in  the  year 
one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and  eighty  feven, 
between  the  then  board  of  treafury  for  the 
United  States  of  America,  of  the  one  part,  and 
ManalTeh  Cutler,  and  Winthrop  Sergeant,  as 
agents  for  the  diredlors  of  the  Ohio  Company 
of  aflbciates,  of  the  other  part,  fo  far  as  the  fame 
refpefts  the  following  defcribed  tra6t  of  land  ; 
that  is  to  fay  :  "Beginning  at  a  flation  where  the 
weftern  boundary  line  of  the  feventh  range  of 
townfiiips,  laid  out  by  the  authority  of  the  Uni- 
ted States  in  Congrefs  aifembled,  interfeds  the 
river  Ohio  ;  thence  extending  along  that  river 


(      97      ) 

fouth-wefterly  to  a  place  where  the   weftern 
boundary  line  of  the   fifteenth  range  of  town- 
fliips,  when  laid  out  agreeably  to  the  land  ordi- 
nance palfed  the  twentieth  day  of  May,  one 
thoufand  feven  hundred  and  eighty  five,  would 
touch  the  faid  river  ;  thence  running  northerly 
on  the  faid  weftern  bounds  of  the  faid  fifteenth 
range  of  townfhips,  'till  a  line  drawn  due  call 
to  the  weflern  boundary  line  of  the  faid  feventh 
range  of  townfhips,  will  comprehend,  with  the 
other  lines  of  this  trad,  feven  hundred  and  fifty 
thoufand  acres  of  land,  befides  the  feveral  lots 
and  parcels  of  land  in  the  faid  contract  referved 
or  appropriated  to  particular  purpofes  ;  thence 
running  eaft  to  the  weftern  boundary  line  of 
the  faid  feventh  range  of  towniliips,  and  thence 
along  the  faid  line  to  the  place  of  beginning," 
be  and  the  fame  is  hereby  confirmed  :  And  that  ^nf  pJefi- 
the  Prefident  of  the  United  States  be  and  he  dentof  u.s. 
hereby  is  authorized  and  empowered  to  iflue  Jettfr?"!- 
letters  patent  in  the  name  and  under  the  feal  of  tent  in  the 
the  United  States,  thereby  granting  and  con-  '^^'^^^  f^^ 
veying  to   Rufus  Putnam,  Manaffeh   Cutler,  nam,  &c. " 
Robert  Oliver,  and  Griffin  Green,  and  to  their 
heirs  and  affigns,in  fee  fimple,  the  faid  defcribed 
trad  of  land,  with  the  reservations  in  the  faid 
indenture  expreffed,  in  trufl:  for   the  perfons 
compofing  the  faid  Ohio  company  of  aifociates, 
according  to  their  feveral  rights  and  interells, 
and  for  their  heirs  and  alTigns,  as  tenants  in 
common. 

Sec.  2.  jind  be  it  further  enaEled^  That  the  To  grant 
Prefident  be  and  he  hereby  is  further  author-  °r"  a^'I'^'' 
ized  and  empowered,  by  letters-patent  as  afore-  Kufus  Put- 
faid,  to  grant  and  convey  to  the  faid  Rufus  Put- ''''"''  ^"^" 
nam,    Manaffeh  Cutler,    Robert    Oliver    and 
Griffin  Green,  and  to  their  heirs  and  afllgns,  in 
trufl,  for  the  ufes  above  exprefled,  one  other 

N 


on  certain 


(     98     ) 

traQ:  of  two  hundred  and  fourteen  thoufandj 

two  hundred  and  eighty-five  acres    of  land. 

Provided^  That  the  faid  Rufus  Putnam,  Manaf- 

condkions'.   feh  Cutlcr,   Robert  Oliver  and  Griffin  Green, 

or  either  of  them,  fhall  deliver  to  the  Secretary 

of  the  Treafury  within  fix  months,  warrants 

which  ifilied  for  army  bounty-rights  fufficient 

for  that  purpofe,  according  to  the  provifion  of 

a  refolve  of  Congrefs  of  the  twenty  third  day 

of  July,  one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and  eighty- 

feven. 
• 

Sec.  3.  Arid  be  it  further  enaEled^    That  the 
orle  other   Prcfident  be  and  he  hereby  is  further  author- 
tra6itoRu   jgied  and  empowered  by  letters-patent  as  afore- 
&c.  ""'^"''  faid,  to  grant  and  convey  to  the  faid    Rufus 
Putnam,  ManaiTeh  Cutler,  Robert  Oliver  and 
Griffin  Green,  and  to  their  heirs  and  affigns, 
in  fee  fimple,  in  truft  for  the  ufes  above  ex- 
preffed,    a  farther    quantity    of  one  hundred 
thoufand  acres  of  land.     Provided  always  nevsr- 
thelefs.  That  the  faid  grant   of  one  hundred 
On  an  ex-  thoufaud  acres  fhall  be  made   on  the  exprefs 
dkionr°"    condition  of  becoming  void,   for  fuch   pari 
thereof,  as  the  faid  company  fhall  not  have, 
within  five  years  from  the  paffing  of  this  ad, 
conveyed  in  fee  fimple,  as  a  bounty  and  free  of 
expenfe,  in  tra£ts  of  one  hundred  acres,  to  each 
male  perfon,  not  lefs  than  eighteen  years  of 
age,  being  an  a£tual  fettler  at  the  time  of  fuch 
conveyance. 
Where  to       Sec.  4.  And  be  it  further  ena&ed.   That  the 
faid  quantities  of  two  hundred  and  fourteen 
thoufand,  two  hundred  and  eighty-five  acres, 
and  of  one  hundred  thoufand  acres,  fhall  be 
located  within  the  limits   of  the  trafl:  of  one 
million,  live  hundred  thoufand  acres  of  land, 
defcribed  in  the  indenture  aforefaid,  and  ad- 
joining to  the  trad  of  land  defcribed  in  the  firfl 


be  located. 


(      99      ) 

fection  of  this  aft,  and  in  fuch  form  as  the  Prefi- 
dent  in  the  letters  patent,  Ihall  prefcribe  for  that 
purpo  fe. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the  Honfe 
of  Reprt/entatives. 

RICHARD  HENRY  LEE,    Prefident  pro  tempore 
of  the  Senate, 

Approved,  April  twenty  firft,   1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prcfident  of  the  United  State's. 

CHAPTER     XXVI. 

An  ACT  to  indemnfy  the  Eflate  of  the  late  Major  General 
Nathaniel  Green,  for  a  certain  bond  entered  into  by  him 
during  the  late  war. 

BE  //  enabled  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of  Re-  ^^^^^^^^-^^ 
pre/entatives  of  the  United  States  of  America  late  Geni! 
in  Congrefs  ajembled.  That  the  United  States  Green,  in, 
fhall  and  will  indemnify  the  eftate  of  the  late  foTamount 
General  Green,  for  the  fum  of  eight  thoufand  of  a  certain 
fix  hundred  and  eighty  eight  pounds  fix  (hil-  °"  * 
lings  flerling  money,  being  the  amount  due 
on  the  firil  day  of  May,  one  thoufand  feven 
hundred  and  eighty-fix,  on  a  certain  bond  ex- 
ecuted to  Meffieurs  Newcomen  and  Collet,  by 
the  faid  General  Green,  as  furety  for  John 
Banks  and  Company,    and  the  intereft  there- 
on ;  excepting  therefrom  a  certain  conditional 
bond  given  in  June  one  thoufand  feven  hun- 
dred and  eighty  fix,  for  about  one  thoufand 
fix  hundred  pounds  fterling,    (be    the  fame 
more  or  lefs)  being  part  of  the  aforefaid  fum 
of   eight    thoufand  fix    hundred   and   eighty 
eight  pounds  fix  (hillings,  which  was    to  be  o"   c^'ain 
paid,  only  in  cafe  the  faid  General  Green  fhould  '^°"'i''^°"^- 
recover  from  the  faid  Banks,  or   Banks  and 
Company,  a  fum  fufficient  for  his  indemnity  ; 
Provided  it  Ihall  appear  upon  due  inveftigation, 
by  the  officers  of  the  Treafury,  that  the  faid 


(       100       ) 

General  Green,  in  his  life-time,  or  his  execu- 
tors, fince  his  deceafe,  have  not  been  already 
indemnified,  or  compenfated  for  the  faid  fum 
of  eight  thoufand  fix  hundred  and  eighty  eight 
pounds  fix  fhillings,  except  as  aforefaid  :  And 
alfo  provided.  That  the  faid  executors  fliall  ac- 
count for   a  fum  being  about  two  thoufand 
pounds  fterling,  (be  the  fame  more  or  lefs)  re- 
covered of  John  Ferrie,  one  of  the  partners  of 
the  faid  Banks  and  Company,  by  the  faid  exe- 
cutors, to  be  in  part  of  the  indemnification  a- 
forefaid  ;  and  alfo  Ihall  make  over  to  the  Comp- 
troller of  the  Treafury  and  his  fuccelTors,  for 
the  United  States,  all  mortgages,  bonds,  coven- 
ants,  or  other  counter-fecurities   whatfoever, 
now  due,  which  were  obtained  by  the  faid  Ge- 
neral Green,  in  his  life-time,  from  the  faid 
Banks  and  Company,  on  account  of  his  being 
furety  for  them  as  aforefaid,  to  be  fued  for  in 
the  name  of  the  faid  executors  for  the  ufe  of  the 
duty  of  the  United  States.     And  the  officers  of  the  Trea- 
the  iveafu-  ^^^7  ^.re  hereby  authorized  to  liquidate  and 
ryhereiu,    fettle  the  fum  due  to  the   eftate  of  the  faid 
General  Green,  to  indemnify  the  fame,  as  afore- 
faid, according  to  the  true  intent  and  meaning 
of  this  aft,  and  to  pay  the  fame,   out  of  the 
Treafury  of  the  United  States,  to  the  faid  ex- 
ecutors, to  be  accounted  for  by  them,  as  part 
of  the  faid  eftate. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the  Houfe 
of  Reprejentatives. 

RICHARD  HENRY  LEE,   Prefident pro  tempore 
of  the  Senate. 

Approved,  April  twenty-feventh,  1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Pirfuknt  of  the  Unite4  States. 


(       loi       ) 
CHAPTER     XXVII. 

An  ACT  for  raifing  a  farther  fum  of  Morr;  for  the  Pro- 
tedion  of  the  Frontiers,  and  for  other  Purpofes  therein  men- 
tioned. 

Sec.  i-X>  E  it  enaSted  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe  q„  ^^^j^ 

13  of  Reprefentatives  of  the  United  States  ]unt  ijo^-. 
of  America  in  Congrefi  ajembled,i:h^t  from  and  tXc^ 
after  lafl  day  of  June  next,  the  duties  now  in  certain arti- 
force  upon  the  articles  hereinafter  enumerated  ^Jj^^  ^"JJ^J^ 
and  defcribed,    at  their  importation  into  the  to  be  c<\- 
United  States,  fhall  ceafe,  and  that  in  Heu  there-  |^f^f^^^^'^ 
of,  there  fliall  be  thenceforth  laid,  levied  and 
collected  upon  the  faid  articles,  at  their  faid  im- 
portation, the  feveral  and  refpedive  rates  or  du- 
ties following  : — viz  : 

Wines,  namely  :  Madeira,  of  the  quality  of  s^^^^jj^^  ^^. 
London  particular,  per  gallon  fifty  fix  cents  : —  tics  on  cer- 
Madeira,  of  the  quality  of  London  market,  per  '^ZT'tt 
gallon,  forty  nine  cents  : — Other  Madeira  wine,  da. 
per  gallon,  forty  cents: — Sherry,  per  gallon, 
thirty  three  cents : — Saint  Lucar,  per  gallon, 
thirty  cents: — Lifbon,  per  gallon,  twenty  five 
cents : — Oporto, per  gallon,  twenty  five  cents : — 
Teneriffe  and  Fayall,  per  gallon  twenty  cents — 
All  other  wines,  forty  per  centum  ad  valorem. 
Provided  that  the  amount  of  the  duty  thereupon 
{hall,  in  no  cafe,  exceed  thirty  cents  per  gallon. 

Spirits,  diftilled  wholly  or  chiefly  from 
grain  : — Of  the  firit  clafs  of  proof,  per  gallon, 
twenty  eight  cents  :— of  the  fecond  clafs  of 
proof,  per  gallon,  twenty  nine  cents  : — of  the 
third  clafs  of  proof,  per  gallon,  thirty  one  cents : 
— of  the  fourth  clafs  of  proof,  per  gallon,  thirty 
four  cents : — of  the  fifth  clafs  of  proof,  per  gal- 
lon, forty  cents  :  — of  the  fixth  clafs  of  proof,  per 
gallon,  fifty  cents. 

All  other  distilled  spirits  : — Of  the 
fecond  clafs  of  proof  and  under,  per  gallon, 
twenty  five  cents  : — of  the  third  clafs  of  proof 
and  under  per  gallonj  twsnty  eight  cents :— -of 


(         102         ) 

Specific  du- the  fourth  clafs  of  proof  and  under,  per  gal- 
tieson  cer-  Ion,  thn'ty  two  cents : — of  the  fifth  clafs  of  proof 

tamenume-         j  i  ,,  ,  •  .    ,  *^  ^ 

rated  arti-  ^J^cl  Under,  per  gallon,  thirty  eight  cents  : — of 
'^^es.  the  fixth  clafs  of  proof  and  under,  per  gallon, 

forty  fix  cents .  Which  feveral  claifes  or  deno- 
minations of  proof  fliall  be  deemed  and  taken 
to  correfpond  with  thofe  mentioned  in  the  "  ad 
"  repealing  after  the  lad  day  of  June  next, 
"  the  duties  heretofore  laid  upon  diftilled  fpirits 
"  imported  from  abroad,  and  laying  others  in 
"  their  ftead,  and  alfo  upon  fpirits  diftilled 
"  within  the  United  States,  and  for  appropria- 
"  ting  the  fame." 

Beer,  ale  and  porter,  per  gallon,  eight  cents: 
— fteel,  per  hundred  weight, one  hundred  cents: 
— nails,  per  pound,  two  cents  : — cocoa  per 
pound,  two  cents:— chocolate,  per  pound,  three 
cents : — playing  cards  per  pack,  twenty  five 
cents : — (lioes  and  flippers  of  filk,  twenty  cents  : 
— ^ali  other  fhoes  and  flippers  for  men  and  wo- 
men, clogs  and  goloflioes,  ten  cents  :  all  other 
fhoes  and  flippers  for  children,  feven  cents  :— 
on  hemp,  for  every  one  hundred  and  twelve 
pounds,  one  hundred  cents  : — on  cables,  for 
every  one  hundred  and  twelve  pounds,  one 
hundred  and  eighty  cents  : — on  tarred  cordage, 
for  every  one  hundred  and  twelve  pounds,  one 
hundred  and  eighty  cents  : — on  untarred  cord- 
age and  yarn,  for  every  one  hundred  and  twelve 
pounds,  two  hundred  and  twenty  five  cents : 
— on  twine  and  packthread,  for  every  one  hun- 
dred and  twelve  pounds,  four  hundred  cents  : 
— on  coal,  per  bufliel,  four  and  a  half  cents : — 
on  fahs  called  Glauber-falts,  for  every  one  hun- 
dred and  tv/elve  pounds,  two  hundred  cents. 

Articles  ad  valorem  :— China  wares, 
looking  glafs,  window  and  other  glafs  and  all 
manufadures  of  glafs,  black  quart  bottles  ex- 
cepted ;  muflcets,  piftols,  and  other  fire  arms ; 
fwords;  cutlaffes,  hangers  and  other  fide  arms  j 


(      103      ) 

ftarch;  hair  powder;  wafers;  glue;  laces,  lines,  specific du- 
fringes,  taflels,  and  trimmings  commonly  ufed  'j^^^  °"  "'^- 
by  upholfterers,  coachmakers  and  laddlers,  and  ratcd""arti' 
paper  hangings  ;  painters  colors,  whether  dry  «^'es. 
or  ground  in  oil, — fifteen  per  centum  ad  valo- 
rem,— caftjflit  and  rolled  iron,  and  generally,  all 
manufadtures  of  iron,  fteel,  tin,  pewter,  copper, 
brafs,  or  of  which  either  of  thefe  metals  is  the 
article  of  chief  value,  not  being  otherwife  par- 
ticularly enumerated,  brafs  and  iron  wire  ex- 
cepted; cabinet  wares;  leather  tanned  and  tawed, 
and  all  manufactures  of  leather,  or  of  which  lea- 
ther is  the  article  of  chief  value,  not  otherwife 
particularly  enumerated  ;  medicinal  drugs,  ex- 
cept thofe  commonly  ufed  in  dying  ;  hats,  caps 
and  bonnets  of  every  fort  ;  gloves  and  mittens  ; 
(lockings  ;  milinery  ready  made  ;  artificial  flow- 
ers, feathers  and  other  ornaments  for  womens 
head  drefles  ;  fans  ;  dolls  drefled  and  undreffed  ; 
toys  ;  buttons  of  every  kind  ;  carpets  and  car- 
peting, mats  and  floor  cloths;  fail  cloth  ;  (heath- 
ing  and  cartridge  paper  ;  all  powders,  partes, 
balls,  balfams,  ointments,  oils,  waters,  waflies, 
tindlures,  eflences,or  other  preparations  or  com- 
pofitions  commonly  called  fweet  fcents,  odors, 
perfumes  or  cofmetics  ;  all  dentifrice-powders, 
tindures,  preparations,  or  compofitions  what- 
foever  for  the  teeth  or  gums, — ten  per  centum 
ad  valorem. 

Sec.   2.  Provided  always^  and  be  it  further  Exemwion 
enaded,T'\\2i\.  all  articles  which  are  excepted  and  of  articles 
exempted  from  duty  by  the  "  ad  making  far-  J^  "^'^^^^. 
ther  provifion  for  the  payment  of  the  debts  of  nued/°" '" 
the  United  States,"  fhall  continue  to  be  fo  ex- 
cepted and  exempted,  and  that,  to  the  articles 
heretofore  made  free  from  duty,  the  following 
Ihall  be  added,  namely,  copper  in  pigs  and  bars, 
lapis  calaminaris,  unmanufactured  wool,  wood, 
fulphur. 


(       104      ) 

Duty  on  fait      Scc.  3.  And  be  it  furtJjcr  cnaded,  T\[2itixon\ 
after   .rth  ^nd  aftci"  the  lall  day  of  June  next,  in  com- 

Junehowto  .  ,       ,  ,  ^         1    •  ,  r  i         ,       ri     , 

be  coiiec  putmg  the  duty  heretotore  laid  upon  fait, a  bulhel 
ted;  and  of  fait  fliall  be  deemed  not  to  exceed  the  weight 
of  fifty  fix  pounds  avoirdupois :  and  as  often  as 
the  aftual  bufhel  of  fait  fhall  exceed  the  faid 
weight,  fuch  fak  fliali  be  charged  in  the  propor- 
tion of  the  prefent  rate  of  duty  per  bulhel  for 
every  fifty  fix  pounds  of  its  a6lual  weight. 

on    goods       Sec.  4.  And  he  it  further  enaded.  That  after 
raTcdbTh's  ^^^  ^^^^  ^^^  ^^y  of  June  next,  there  fhall  be  laid, 
adt.        "  levied  and  coliecled,  in  addition  to  the  prefent 
duty  thereupon,  a  duty  of  two  and  an  half  per 
centum  ad  valorem,  upon  all  goodsj  wares  and 
merchandizes,  not  above  enumerated  or  defcri- 
bed,  which,  if  imported  in  fhips  or  veffels  of 
the  United  States,  are  now  chargeable  with  a 
duty  of  five  per  centum  ad  valorem. 
Certain  ad-      Scc.  5.  And  be  it  further  enacted^  That  the 
ditionai  du-  addition  of  ten  per  centum  made  by  the  fecond 
cem.  co°nt^-  fc^ion  of  the  "  aft  making  farther  provifion  for 
nued.         the  debts  of  the  United  States,"  to  the  rates  of 
duties  on  goods,  wares  and  merchandize,  im- 
ported in  lliips  or  veffels  not  of  the  United 
States,  fhall  continue  in  full  force  and  opera- 
tion, after  the  faid  laft  day  of  June  next,  in  re- 
lation to  the  articles  herein  before  enumerated 
and  defcribed. 

Drawbacks  ^^^*  ^'  ^^^  ^^  '^  further  enacled.  That  all 
not  already  drawbacks  and  allowances  authorized  by  the 
aboiinied,  ^Q.  aforefaid,  which  have  not  been  heretofore 
aboliflied  or  changed,  fhall  continue  to  operate, 
as  in  the  faid  ad  prefcribed  in  relation  to  the  fe- 
veral  duties  which  fhall  become  payable  by  vir- 
tue of  this  act,  and  that  in  addition  thereto, 
there  fhall  be  allowed  and  paid  upon  provifions 
falted  within  the  United  States,  except  upon 
dried  fifh,  upon  the  exportation  thereof  to  any 
foreign  port  or  place,  as  follows,  to  wit :  On 


(       I05       ) 

pickled  fifti,  at  the  rate  of  eight  cents  per  barrel, 
and  on  other  provifions  at  the  rate  of  five  cents 
per  barrel  ;  and  from  and  after  the  firit  day  ^^^  ^^^^^^ 
of  January  next,   there  Ihall  be  an  addition  of  edprovifi-' 
twenty  per  centum  to  the  allowances,  refpeclive-  "J^"?."''" 
ly  granted  to  fhips  or  velTels  employed  in  the  ancetovef- 
bank   or  other  cod-fillieries,  and  in  the  terms  ^'-^'^ employ. 
provided  by  an  a6l,  intituled  "  An  acl  concern-  fifherL. 
ing  certain  filheries  of  the  United  States,  and 
for  the  regulation  and  government  of  the  filh- 
ermen  employed  therein,"  and  during  the  con- 
tinuance of  the  faid  act. 

Sec.  7.  And  be  it  further  enacied^  That  all  j^^^j^^ 
duties,  drawbacks  and  allowances,  which,  by  drawbaci;*, 
virtue  of  this  ad,  (hall  be  payable  or  allowable  f'-^^^PP^y 
on  any  Ipecmc  quantity  or  goods,  wares  and  tity. 
merchandize,  fliall  be  deemed  to  apply,  in  pro- 
portion, to  any  quantity  more  or  iefs  than  fuch 
fpecific  quantity. 

Sec.   8.  And  he  it  further  enaSied^  That  the  Terms  of 
term  of  credit  for  the  payment  of  duties  on  fait  credit  for 
fhall  be  nine  months,  and  on  all  articles,  the  JX*?''  °' 
produce   of    the    Weft-Indies,  fait    excepted, 
where  the  amount  of  the  duty  to  be  paid  by 
one  perfon  or  co-partner(hip  fhall  exceed  fifty 
dollars,  (liall  be  four  months,  and  that  the  du- 
ties on  all  other  articles,  except  wines  and  teas, 
which  fliall  be  imported  after  the  laft  day  of 
June  next,  fliall  be  payable,  one  half  in  fix,  one 
quarter  in  nine,  and  the  other  quarter  in  twelve 
calendar  months  from  the  time  of  each  refpec- 
tive  importation. 

Sec.  9.  And  be  it  further  enacled.  That  the  Certain  aa» 
afl:  intituled,  "  An  act  to  provide  more  effe6tu-  fJl^'jf^  j" 
ally  for  the  collection  of  duties  impofedbylaw  duties  fpe- 
on  goods,  wares  and  merchandize  imported  J^J'^^^'"''^'' 
into  the  United  States,  and  on  the  tonnage  of  ^^ " 
Ihips  and  veffels,"  and  as  touching  the  duties 
O 


(       io6       ) 

on  diflilled  fplrits  only,  the  a6l,  Intituled,  "  An 
aft  repealing,  after  the  lail  day  of  June  next, 
the  duties  heretofore  laid  upon  diftilled  fpirits 
imported  from  abroad  and  laying  others  in 
their  Head  ;  and  alfo  upon  fpirits  diftilled  with- 
in the  United  States,  and  for  appropriating  the 
fame,"  fliall  extend  to,  and  be  in  full  force  for 
the  colledion  of  the  duties  fpecified  and  laid 
in  and  by  this  ad:,  and  generally  for  the  execu- 
tion thereof,  as  fully  and  effedually,  as  if  every 
regulation,  reftridion,  penalty,  provifion,  claufe, 
matter  and  thing  therein  contained  had  been 
herein  inferted  and  re-enaded. 
Wines  I'm-  Sec.  lo.  And  be  it  further  cnaBed^  That  all 
ported  aft-r  •^^ines,  which,  after  the  faid  laft  day  of  June 
how  laSed  J^^ext,  ftiall  be  imported  into  the  United  States, 
fhall  be  landed  under  the  care  of  the  infpeftor 
of  the  port  where  the  fame  fhall  be  landed,  and 
for  that  purpofe,  every  permit  for  landing  any 
wdnes,  which  fhall  be  granted  by  a  colledor, 
fhall,  prior  to  fuch  landing,  be  produced  to  the 
faid  infpeftor  who,  by  endorfement  thereupon 
under  his  hand,  fhall  fignify  the  produftion 
thereof  to  him,  and  the  time  when,  after  which, 
and  not  otherwife,  on  pain  of  forfeiture,  it 
fhall  be  lawful  to  land  the  faid  wines.  And  the 
Duty  of  m-  ^^^^  infpeftor  fiiall  make  an  entry  of  all  fuch 
fpedtor.  permits,  and  of  the  contents  thereof,  and  each 
pipe,  butt,  hogfhead,  caili,  cafe,  box  or  package 
whatfoever,  containing  fuch  wines,  fliall  be 
marked  by  the  officer  under  whofe  immediate 
infpediion  the  fame  fhall  be  landed,  in  legible 
and  durable  characters,  with  progrefTive  num- 
bers, the  name  of  the  faid  officer,  and  the  qua- 
lity or  kind  of  wine,  as  herein  before  enume- 
rated and  diftinguifhed.  And  the  faid  officer 
fhall  grant  a  certificate  for  each  fuch  pipe,  butt 
hogfliead,  cafl-:,  cafe,  box  or  package,  fpecifying 
therein  the  name  or  uanies  of  the  importer  or 


(       I07       ) 

importers,  the  fhip  or  vefiel  in  which  the  fame 
fhall  have  been  imported,  and  the  number  there- 
of, to  accompany  the  fame  wherefoever  it  fliall 
be  fent.  And  if  any  pipe,  butt,  hogfhead,  caik, 
cafe,  box  or  package,  containing  wine,  fliall  be 
found  without  fuch  marks  and  certificates,  the 
fame  Ihall  be  liable  to  be  feized,  and  the  want 
of  fuch  marks  and  certificates  fliall  be  prefump- 
tive  evidence,  that  fuch  wine  was  unlawfully 
imported  and  landed. 

Sec.   1 1.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  eve-  p^^.^.^^^ 
ry  perfon,  who  fliall  have  in  his  or  her  pofleflion,  having  ccr, 
wines  which  are  intended  for  fale,  in  quantity  ^^''^Y^\nt% 
exceeding  one  hundred  and  fifty  gallons,  fliall,  fo/faic'af- 
prior  to  the  faid  lad  day  of  June  next,  make  en-  '''^    ^^^^ 
try  thereof  in  writing  at  fome  office  of  infpec-  to""^ 


niaiseen- 


tion  in  the  city,  town,  or  county  where  he  or  try  thereof, 
fhe  fliall  refide,  fpecifying  and  defcribing  the  '^' 
calks,  cafes,  boxes^and  other  packages  contain- 
ing the  fame,  and  the  kinds,  qualities  and  quan- 
tities thereof,  and  where,  and  in  whofe  poflTef- 
fion  they  are  ;  and  the  oflicer  of  infpedion  at 
whofe  office  fuch  entry  may  be  made,  fPiall,  as 
foon  as  may  be  thereafter,  vifit  and  infpecl,  or 
caufe  to  be  vifited  and  infpecled,  the  wines  fo 
reported,  and  fliall  mark,  or  caufe  to  be  mark- 
ed, the  cafl^s,  cafes,  boxes  and  packages  con- 
taining the  fame, with  progreffive  numbers,  with 
the  name  of  the  perfon  to  whom  the  fame  may 
belong,  the  kind  or  kinds  thereof,  and  the  words 
"  Old  Stock,"  and  fhall  grant  a  certificate  for 
each  calk,  cafe,  box  or  package,  containing  fuch 
wine,  defcribing  therein  the  faid  cafl^,  cafe,  box 
or  package,  and  the  wines  therein  contained, 
which  certificate  fliall  accompany  the  fame, 
wherever  it  may  be  fent.  And  if  any  perfon 
who  may  have  wines  in  his  or  her  poifeflion  for 
fale,  fliall  not,  prior  to  the  laid  lafc  day  of  June 
next,  make  entry  thereofj  as  above  directed, 


(       io8      ) 

he  or  fhe,  for  fuch  omifficn  or  negle£l,  fliall 
forfeit  and  pay  the  value  of  the  wine  omitted 
to  be  entered,  to  be  recovered  with  coils  of  fuit, 
for  the  benefit  of  any  perfon  who  fhall  give  in- 
formation thereof,  and  the  wines  fo  omitted  to 
be  entered,  fliall  be  forfeited. 

How  beer,  Sec.  12.  jind  be  if  further  cnaclcd,  Th^t  hom 
brou^hJVr  and  after  the  lad  day  of  December  next,  no 
to  u5:'tates.  beer,  ale  or  porter  fliail  be  brought  into  the 
United  States,  from  any  foreign  port  or  place, 
except  in  cafes  orveifels,  the  capacity  whereof 
iliall  not  be  lefs  than  forty  gallons,  or  in  pack- 
ages containing  not  lefs  than  fix  dozen  of  bot- 
tles, on  pain  of  forfeiture  of  the  faid  beer,  ale 
or  porter,  and  of  the  fhip  or  veffel,  in  which  the 
fame  fhall  be  brought. 

Sec.  13.  And  be  it  further  enndedj  Tliat  the 
Sis'd  how  ^'^^^r^l  ^^•^'^  refpective  duties  aforefaid,  except 
long  to  be  that  mentioned  in  the  fourth  feclion  of  this  acl, 
coiieaed.  ^-j^ij  continue  to  be  levied,  collected  and  paid, 
until  the  debts  and  purpofes,  to  and  for  which 
the  duties,  hereby  directed  to  ceafe  after  the 
laft  day  of  June  next,  were  pledged  and  appro^ 
priated,  fhall  have  been  fully  paid  and  fatisfied; 
and  that  fo  much  thereof,  as  may  be  neceffary, 
fliall  be,  and  are  hereby  pledged  and  appropri- 
ated, in  the  fame  manner,  for  the  fame  purpo- 
fes, and  with  the  fame  force  and  eftecl,  as  thofe, 
which  are  hereby  direded  to  ceafe  after  the  faid 
lafl  day  of  June  next,  and  that  fo  much  of  the 
refidue  thereof,  as  may  b^  neceffary,  fliall  be, 
ajid  are  hereby  appropriated  for  making  good 
deficiencies  in  any  funds,  which  may  have  been 
defignated  for  fatisfying  grants  and  appropria- 
tions heretofore  made. 

.  Sec.   14.  And  be  it  further  enaBed,  That  the 

of""nU'io-  additional  duty  of  two  and  an  half  per  centum 
i«m  ouucs  ^^  valorem,  fpecified  in  the  fourth  fedion  of 


(       109       ) 

this  aa,  ihall  continue  for  the  term  of  two  years,  J/^'feaion 
from  the  commencement  thereof, and  no  longer. 

Sec.  15.  And  he  it  further  cna^ed^  That  the  ^p^P'^^J;*; 
fum  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  thoufand  dollars,  ^^^  duties 
out  of  the  furplus  of  the  duties,  which  accrued 
to  the  end  of  the  year  one  thoufand  feven  hun- 
dred and  ninety  one,  and  a  farther  fum  of  five 
hundred  and  twenty-three  thoufand  five  hun- 
dred dollars,  out  of  the  furplus  of  the  duties 
hereby  eflablifhed  as  the  fame  fhall  accrue,  mak- 
king  together  the  fum  of  fix  hundred  and  fe- 
venty-three  thoufand  five  hundred  dollars,  fliall 
be,  and  are  hqreby  appropriated  and  applied, 
in  addition  to  any  former  appropriation  for  the 
military  eflablifhment  of  the  United  States, 
towards  carrying  into  execution  the  a£tj  inti- 
tuled, "  An  a£t  for  making  farther  and  more 
effeclual  provilion  for  the  protection  of  the  fron- 
tiers of  the  United  States." 

Sec.   16.  And  be  it  further  enaSied,  That  the  Prefident  of 
Prefident  of  the  United  States  be  empowered  u- state,  to 
to  take  on  loan,  on  account  01  the  United  btates,  ban  from 
from  the  prefident,  directors  and  company  of  ti^e  bank, 
the  bank  of  the  United  vStates,  who  are  hereby  fum  of  mo- 
authorized  and  empowered  to  lend  the  fame,  "=>'• 
from  any  other  body  politic  or  corporate  within 
the  United  States,  or  from  any   other  perfon 
or  perfons,  the  whole  or  any  part  of  the  afore- 
faid    fum   of  five    hundred  and  twenty-three 
thoufand  five  hundred  dollars,  to  be  applied  to 
tue  purpofe,  to  and  for  which  the  fame  is  above 
appropriated,  and  to  be  reimburfed  out  of  the 
aforefaid  furplus  of  the  duties  by  this  act  im- 
pofed,  which  furplus  is,  accordingly,    appro- 
priated to  the  faid  reimburfement.     Provided, 
That  the  rate  of  interefl  of  fuch  loan  fliall  not 
exceed  five  per  centum  per  annum,  and  that 
the  principal  thereof  may  be  reimburfed  at  the 
pleafure  of  the  United  States. 


(        no       ) 

Rate  of  n.  Sec.  17.  And  be  it  further  ena6led^  That  fo 
7p~  much  of  the  aft,  intituled  «  An  ad  to  provide 
skered.  morc  cffcclually  for  the  colledion  of  duties  im- 
pofed  by  law  on  goods,  wares  and  merchandize 
imported  into  the  United  States,  and  on  the  ton- 
nage of  fliips  or  veffels,"  as  hath  rated  the  Hvre 
tournois  of  France  at  eighteen  and  an  half  cents, 
be  and  the  fame  is  hereby  repealed. 
Mode  tf  Sec.  18.  And  be  it  enacted  and  declared  ^Th.2it 
procedure  if  the  principal,  in  any  bond  which  fhall  be  given 
infokency  ^0  the  United  States,  for  duties  on  goods,  wares, 
of  principal  and  merchandize  imported,  (liall  be  infolvent, 
ic.  ""  *'  o^  i^  f^ch  principal  being  dead,  his  or  her  eftate 
and  effefts,  which  lliall  have  come  to  the  hands 
of  his  or  her  executors  or  adminiftrators,  fliall 
be  infufficient  for  the  payment  of  his  or  her 
debts,  and  if,  in  either  of  the  faid  cafes,  any  fure- 
ty  in  the  faid  bond,  or  the  executors  and  admi- 
niftrators of  fuch  furety,  (liall  pay  to  the  United 
States  the  monies  tliereupon  due,  fuch  furety, 
his  or  her  executors  or  adminiftrators  ftiall 
have  and  enjoy  the  like  advantage,  priority  and 
preference,  for  the  recovery  and  receipt  of  the 
faid  monies  out  of  the  eftate  and  efFeds  of  fuch 
infolvent  or  deceafed  principal,  as  are  referved 
and  fecured  to  the  United  States,  by  the  forty 
fourth  fedion  of  the  aft,  intituled  "  An  act  to 
provide  more  effedually  for  the  colledlion  of  du- 
ties "Impofed  by  law  on  goods,  wares,  and  mer- 
"  chandize  imported  into  the  United  States, 
"  and  on  the  tonnage  of  fiiips  or  veflel^,"  and 
fhall  and  may  bring  and  maintain  a  fuit  upon 
the  faid  bond,  in  law  or  equity,  in  his,  her  or 
their  own  name  or  names,  for  the  recovery  of 
the  monies  which  fliall  have  been  paid  there- 
upon. And  it  is  further  decIared,Th:it  the  cafes 
of  infolvency  in  the  faid  forty  fourth  fedion  men- 
tioned, fliall  be  deemed  to  extend,as  well  to  cafes 
in  which  a  debtor,  not  having  fufficient  pro- 


(    III    ) 

perty  to  pay  all  his  or  her  debts,  fliall  have 
made  a  voluntary  aflignment  thereof,  for  the 
benefit  of  his  or  her  creditors,  or  in  which  the 
eftate  and  elfetls  of  an  abfconding,  concealed  or 
abfent  debtor  fhall  have  been  attached  by  procefs 
of  law,  as  to  cafes,  in  which  an  a6l  of  legal  bank- 
ruptcy fhall  have  been  committed. 

Sec.   19.  And  be  it  further  enaded.  That  the  rrefidrntof 
Prefident  of  the  United  States  be,  and  hereby  ';^^^^^^,^^, 
is  authorized  to  appoint  fuch  place  within  the  of  entry  and 
diftrid  of  Vermont  to  be  the  port  of  entry  and  ^'^^;';;^y" 
delivery  within  the  faid  diftrid,  as  he  may  deem 
expedient,  any  thing  in  the  ad,  intituled  "  An 
ad  giving  effed  to  the  laws  of  the  United  States 
within  the  flate  of  Vermont,"  to  the  contrary 
notwithlfanding. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the  Houft 
of  Reprefentativcs. 

RICHARD  HENRY  LEE,  Prefident  pro  tempore 
of  the  Senate. 

Approved,  May  fecond,    1792. 

G^:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  oj  the  United  States. 

CHAPTER     XXVIII. 

An  ACT  to  provide  for  calling  forth  the  MiLiTi  A  to  exe- 
cute the  Laws  of  the  Union,  fupprefs  Infurretlions  and  re'    ■ 
pel  Lruajions. 

Sec.  I.    "j3  E  it  enabled  by  the  Senate  andHoufe 

Ij  of Reprefentatives  of theUnited  States  Frefidentof 

r    /f         ^^^^-       n  r        rr     1 1    i     n-u    .        u  U. 5. how  to 

of  America  in    Longrefs   alJembled^   Ihat  when-  proceed  in 
ever  the  United  States  Ihall  be  invaded,  or  be  ^afe  o.   m- 
in    imminent    danger    of    invafion    from   any  ]l^^^^n  nl- 
foreign  nation  or  Indian  tribe,  it  fhall  be  law-  tion.,&c- 
ful  for  the  Prefident   of  the   United  States,  to 
call  forth  fuch   number  of  the   militia  of  the 
Itate  or  ftates  moll  convenient  to  the  place  of 
danger  or  fcene  of  adion,  as  he  may  judge  ne- 
cefTary  to  repel  fuch  invafion,  and  to  iffue  his 


(    "2   ) 

orders  for  that  purpofe,  to  fuch  officer  or  offi- 
cers of  the  militia  as  he  lliail  think  proper  :  and 
infurrcdion  ^^  ^^^^  ^^  ^^  infurredion  in  any  ftate,  againft 
jgainft  the  the  government  thereof,   it  fliall  be  lawful  for 
TanyftaTe-the  Prefident  of  the  United  States,  on  applica- 
'  tion  of  the  legiflature  of  fuch  ftate,  or  of  the 
executive  (when  the  legiflature  cannot  be  con- 
vened) to  call  forth  fuch  number  of  the  militia 
of  any  other  ftate  or  ftates,  as  may   be  applied 
for,  or  as  he  may  judge  fufficient  to  fupprefs 
fuch  infurredion. 

or  oppofiti-  Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enaded.  That  when- 
cxecmicn  of  ^^^^  ^^^  ^^^^  ^^  ^^^^  United  States  fliall  be  op- 
the  law.  of  pofcd,  or  the  execution  thereof  obftrucled,  in 
u. states,  j^j^y.  ^2ite,  by  combinations  too  powerful  to  be 
fuppreflfed  by  the  ordinary  courfe  of  judicial 
proceedings,  or  by  the  powers  vefted  in  the 
marflials  by  this  aft,  the  fame  being  notified  to 
the  Prefident  of  the  United  States,  by  an  aflfoci- 
ate  juftice  or  the  diftrid  judge,  it  fliall  be  lawful 
for  the  Prefident  of  the  United  States  to  call 
forth  the  militia  of  fuch  ftate  to  fupprefs  fuch 
combinations,  and  to  caufe  the  laws  to  be  duly 
executed.  And  if  the  militia  of  a  ftate,  where 
fuch  combinations  may  happen,  fliall  refufe, 
or  be  infufficient  to  fupprefs  the  fame.  It  fliall 
be  lawful  for  the  Prefident,  if  the  Legiflature 
of  the  United  States  be  not  in  fefiion,  to  call 
forth  and  employ  fuch  numbers  of  the  militia 
of  any  other  ftate  or  ftates  moft  convenient 
thereto,  as  may  be  neceflary,  and  the  ufe  of 
militia,  fo  to  be  called  forth,  may  be  continu- 
ed, if  necefl~ary,  until  the  expiration  of  thirirty 
days  after  the  commencement  of  the  enfuing 
feffion. 

By  procla-      Scc.  3.  Provided  always,  and  be  it  further  en- 
mationtoor  ^^^^^  That  whenever  It    maybe  neceflfary,  in 
^odifpafl*'  the  judgment  of  the  Prefident,  to  ufe  the  mili- 
tary fores  hereby  directed  to  be  called  forth. 


(       "3       ) 

the  Prefident  fxrall  forthwith,  and  previous 
there  o,  by  proclamation,  command  fuch  insur- 
gents to  diiperle,  and  retire  peaceably  to  their 
rcipedive  abodes,  within  a  limited  time. 

Sec.  4.  And  be  if  further  enaled.    That   the  Pay  of  the 
ir.ilitia,  employed  in  the  Tervice  of  the  United  ""i'^'=^  «™- 
States,  fliall  receive  the  fame  pay  and  allowan-  u.^tatssf 
ces   as  the   troops   of  the  United   States,   who 
may  be   in  fervice   at  the  fame  time,   or    who 
were  laft  in  fervice,  and  (hall  be  fubjecl  to  the 
fame  rules  and  articles  of  war  :   And  that  '^^ 
oiTicer,   non  comraiffioned    ofncer  or  private  of 
the  militia  fliall    be  com.pelled  to    ferve  more 
than  three  months  in  any  one  year,  nor  more 
than  in  due  rotation  with  every  other  able  bo- 
died man  of  the  fame  rank  in  the  battalion  to 
which  he  belongs. 

Sec.   5.      And   be  it  further    enncfed^    That  "cnaity  on 
every  officer,   non-commiliioned  oScer  or  pri-  •^-^^'-eyin^ 
vate  or  the  militia,    who  ihali  tail  to  ooey  toe  sutes. 
orders  of  the  Prefident  of  the  United  Staies,  in 
any  of  the  cafes  before  recited,  fhall    forfeit  a 
fum  not  exceeding  one  year's  pay,  and  not  lefs 
than  one  month's  pay,  to  be  determined  and 
adjudged  by  a  court  martial ;  and  fuch  officer 
fhall,  moreover  be  liable  to  be    cafhiered   by 
fentence  of  a  court  martial  ;    and   fuch   non- 
commiffioned    officers   and   privates    fhall   be 
liable  to  be  imprifoned  by   a  like  fentence,  on. 
failure  of  payment  of  the  fines  adjudged  againfl 
them,  for  the  fpace  of  one  calendar  month  for 
every  five  dollars  of  fuch  fine. 

Sec.  6,      And  be  it  further  enaFied,^    That  c^'unsm-.r- 
courts  martial  for  the  trial  of  militia  fliall  be  ''-^i  'i'^^*" 
compofed  of  militia  officers  only.  ""'^''' 

Sec.  7.      And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  all  Fines  to  be 
fines  to-  be  alTeired,  as  aforcfaid,  fhall  be  certi-  «^^i-^=«it°. 
fied  by  the  prefiding  officer  of  the  court  raar- 
P 


herein. 


(        114       ) 

tial  before  whom  the  fame  (hall  be  affelTed,  to 
the  marfhal  of  the  diftrid:,  in  which  the  deUn- 
quent  fhali  refide,  or  lo  one  of  his  deputies  ; 
and  alfo  to  the  fupervifor  of  the  revenue  of  the 
fame  diftrift,  who  fliall  record  the  faid  certifi- 
cate in  a  book  to  be  kept  for  that  purpofe.  The 
and  dut  of  ^^^^  marfhal  or  his  deputy  fhall  forthwith  pro- 
marfiiais  cccd  to  Icvy  the  faid  fines  with  cofls,  by  diflrefs 
and  fale  of  the  goods  and  chattels  of  the  delin- 
quent, which  cofls  and  the  manner  of  proceed- 
ing, with  refped:  to  the  fale  of  the  goods  dif- 
trained,  fhall  be  agreeable  to  the  laws  of  the 
ftate,  in  which  the  fame  fliall  be,  in  other  cafes 
of  diflrefs  ;  and  where  any  non-commiffioned 
oflicer  or  private  fhall  be  adjudged  to  fuffer  im- 
prifonment,  there  being  no  goods  or  chattels  to 
be  found,  whereof  to  levy  the  faid  fines,  the 
marfhal  of  the  diflri6l  or  his  deputy  may  commit 
fuch  delinquent  to  gaol,  during  the  term,  for 
which  he  fhall  be  fo  adjudged  to  imprifonment, 
or  until  the  fine  fliall  be  paid,  in  the  fame  man- 
ner as  other  perfons  condemned  to  fine  and  im- 
prifonment at  the  fuit  of  the  United  States,  may 
be  committed. 

To  pay  the  Scc.  8.  Aiid  be  it  further  e?ia^ed,  T\i2it  the 
fries  to  the  niarflials  and  their  deputies  fhall  pay  all  fuch 
^pernor,  ^^^^  by  them  levied  to  the  fupervifor  of  there- 
venue,  in  the  diflrid  in  which  they  are  colledled, 
within  two  months  after  they  fliall  have  received 
the  fame,  deducting  therefrom  five  per  centum, 
as  a  compenfation  for  their  trouble  ;  and  in  cafe 
of  failure,  the  fame  fhall  be  recoverable  by  ac- 
tion of  debt  or  information  in  any  court  of  the 
United  States,  of  the  diflrift,  in  which  fuch  fines 
fliall  be  levied,  having  cognizance  thereof,  to 
be  fuied  for,  profecuted  and  recovered,  in  the 
name  of  the  fupervifor  of  the  diflrift,  with  in- 
tereil  and  cofls. 


(       ^'5       ) 

Sec.  9.  And  be  it  further  enaded.  That  the  f/"^"^f, 
marflials  of  the  feveral  dillricls  and  their  depa- 
ties  fliall  have  the  fame  powers  in  executing  the 
laws  of  the  United  State?,  as  flieriffs  and  their 
deputies  in  the  feveral  ftates  have  by  law,  in 
executing  the  laws  of  their  refpedive  flates. 

Sec.  10.  And  he  it  further  enabled ^  That  this  CommuatF- 
a6l  fhall  continue  and  be  in  force,  for  and  dur-  ^^  °^  ''^'^ 
ing  the  term  of  tv/o  years,  and  from  thence  to 
the  end  of  the  next  feflion  of  Congrefs  there- 
after, and  no  longer. 

JONATHAN  TP.UMBUI.L,  Speaktr  ofthcHoufc 
of  Reprefentatives. 

RICHARD  HENRY  LEE,  Prejident  pro  tanpore. 
of  the  Senate, 

Approved,  May  fecond,    1792. 

G°.  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States. 


CHAPTER     XXIX. 

An  ACT  for  the  relief  of  perfons  Imprifoned  for  Debt. 

Sec.  1 .  13  E  it  enaded  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe 

_I3  of  Reprefentatives  of  the  United  States  Pe'^«"slm- 
of  America^  in  Congrefs  afjembled^  That  perfons  execudon!' 
imprifoned  on  executions  iiluing  from  any  court  iffuingfrom 
of  the  United  States  for  fatisfaclion  of  judg-  u'states^'to 
ments  in  any  civil  a(51ions  ihall  be  entitled  to  like  ''^ve  Hke 
privileges  of  the  yards  or  limits  of  the  refpec-  are'^JiWe^d 
tive   goals    as  perfons  confined  in  fuch   goals  bv  fiate 
for  debt  on  judgments  rendered  in  the  courts  '^°""^* 
of  the  feveral  itates  are  entitled  to,  and  under 
the  like  regulations  and  reftriclions. 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacJed,  That  any  Mode  of 
perfon  imprifoned  as  aforefaid,  may  have  the  fJ"J"rt'^ 
oath  01:  affirmation  herein  after  expreffcd  ad- ipcA  to pe r 


fon 

States,  or  of  the  general  or  fupremc  court  of 


miniftered   to  him  by  any  judge  of  the  ITnitcd  J-""^,,}'"^'''" 


C       "6      ) 

hw  of  the  ftate  in  which  the  dehtor  is  impri- 
foned,  the  creditor  his  agent  or  attorney,  if 
either  live  within  one  hundred  miles  of  the 
place  of  imprifonment,  or  within  the  diftric!: 
in  which  the  judgment  was  rendered  having 
had  at  lead  thirty  days  previous  notice,  by  a 
citation  ferved  on  him,  iiTued  by  any  luch  judge, 
to  appear  at  the  time  therein  mentioned,  at 
the  laid  goal,  if  he  fee  fit,  to  fliew  caufe  why 
the  faid  oath  or  affirmation  fhould  not  be  i'o 
adminiftered  ;  at  which  time  and  pi  ce,  if  no 
fufficient  caufe  in  the  opinion  of  the  judge,  be, 
ihewn  or  doth  from  examination  appear  to  the 
contrary,  he  may  at  the  requeil  of  the  debtor, 
proceed  to  adminifter  to  him  the  following  oath 
or  affirmation,  as  the  cafe  may  be,  viz.  '-  You 
folemnly  fwear  (or  affirm)  hat 
yovi  have  not  eftate,  real  or  perfonal,  nor  is  any 
to  your  knowledge  holden  in  truft  lor  you  to 
the  amount  or  value  of  twenty  dollai?,  nor 
fufficient  to  pay  the  debt  for  which  ycu  are 
imprlioned."  Which  oath  or  affirmaii(  n  being 
adminiftered,  the  judge  ffiall  certify  the  fame 
mider  his  hand,  to  the  prilon  keeper,  and  iiiall 
fix  a  reafonable  allowance  for  the  debtor's  fup- 
port,  not  exceeding  one  dollar  per  week  ;  and 
if  the  creditor  ffiall  thereafter  any  week  fail  ;o 
furniOi  the  debtor  with  fuch  weekly  iuppor:\, 
by  paying  or  advancing  the  money  to  him,  or 
to  the  prifon-keeper,for  his  ufe,  the  debtor  ihall 
be  difcbarged  from  his  imprifonment  on  fuch 
judgment,  and  Ihali  not  be  liable  to  be  impri- 
foned  again  for  the  faid  debt ;  but  the  judgment 
fliall  remain  good  and  fuffiicient  in  law,  and  may 
be  fatisficd  out  of  any  eftate  which  may  then  or 
at  any  time  afterwards  belong  to  di-  debtor. 

Penalty  on      Scc.  3.  And  be  H  further  enaf'ed.  That  li  any 

faife  fwear.  p^j-fon  flnll  falfcly  take  the  oath  or  affirrnarion 

aforefaid,  fuch  ptrfon  fnall  be  deemed  guiky  of 


(       1^7      ) 

perjury,   and  fuffer  the  pains  and  penalties  in 
that  cafe  provided. 

Sec.  4.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  this  LifnitatJon 
a6l  fiiall  continue  and  be  in  force,  for  the  fpace  of  tin  aa. 
of  one  year  from  the  pafTmg  thereof,  and  from 
thence  to  the  end  of  the  next  feflion  of  Con- 
grefs,  and  no  longer. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the  Houfe 

of  Reprefentatives. 
RICHARD  HENRY  LEE,  Prc/zdent  pro  tempon 
of  tki  Senate. 

Apr  ROVED,  May  fifth,  179^. 

G°.  WASHINGTON, 

Pref.dent  of  the  United  States. 


CHAPTER     XXX. 

An  ACT  authorizing  the  grant  and   conveyance   of  certain 
Lands  io  John  Cleves  Symmes,  ayid  his  AJfociates. 

Sec.  I .  "piE  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of ,  ^efident 

Reprefentatives  of  the  United  States  of  avnh<jvMc6. 
America  in  Congrefs  ajcmblcd.  That  the  Pren-  '^°  g|^^'  =^ 
dent  of  the  United  States  be  and  he  hereby  is  number  of 
authorized  and  empowered  to  illue  letters  pa-  acrestoj.c. 
tent   in  the  name  and  under  the  feal   of  the  '  ^'""'•^''"" 


certain  con- 


United  States,  thereby  granting  and  conveying  ditions. 
to  John  Cleves  Symmes  and  his  affociates,  and 
to  their  heirs  and  affigns,  in  fee  fimple,  fuch 
number  of  acres  of  land  as  the  payments  alrea- 
dy made  by  the  faid  John  Cleves  Symmes,  his 
agents  or  alfociates,  under  their  contract  of  the 
fifteenth  day  of  October  one  thoufand  feven 
hundred  and  eighty  eight,  will  pay  for,  efti- 
mating  the  lands  at  tw^o  thirds  of  a  dollar  per 
acre,  and  making  the  refervations  fpecified  in 
the  laid  contract. 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enaclcd.  That  the  To  grant 
Prefident  be  and  he  hereby  is  further  autho-  ""^^  '^'^'^'^ 
rizcd   and  empowered,    by    letters  patent  as 


(       "3       ) 

aforefaid,  to  grant  and  convey  to  the  faid  John 
Cleves  Symmes  and  his  aflbciates,  and  to  their 
heirs  and  affigns  in  fee  fnriple,  one  other  trad 
of  one  hundred  and  fix  thoufand  eight  hun- 
dred and  fifty  feven  acres,  with  the  referva- 
tions  as  aforefaid  : — Provided,  That  the  faid 
John  Cleves  Symmes,  or  his  agents  or  aflbci- 
ates, or  any  of  them,  (liali  deliver  to  the  Secre- 
tary of  the  Treafury,  within  fix  months,  war- 
rants which  iffued  for  army  bounty  rights  fuf- 
ficient  for  that  purpofe,  according  to  the  pro- 
vifion  of  the  refolves  of  Congrefs  of  the  twenty 
third  of  July,  and  fecond  of  Odober  one  thou- 
fand feven  hundred  and  eighty  feven ;  but  in 
cafe,  fo  many  warrants  fliouldnotbe  delivered, 
then  the  letters  patent  lall  aforefaid  to  be  given 
for  fuch  number  of  acres,  as  fliall  be  in  propor- 
tion to  the  warrants  fo  delivered. 


One  town 
Ihip  grant 
cA  for  femi 
iiaries  oi 
iearnirg. 


Sec.  3.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  the 
Prefident  be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  and 
empowered,  by  letters  patent  as  aforefaid,  to 
grant  and  convey  unto  the  faid  John  Cleves 
Symmes  and  his  affociates,  their  heirs  and  af- 
figns, in  trufl  for  the  purpofe  of  eftablifhing 
an  academy  and  other  public  fchools  and  fe- 
minaries  of  learning,  one  compleat  townfhip, 
conformably  to  an  order  of  Congrefs  of  the 
fecond  of  Odober,  one  thoufand  feven  hun- 
dred and  eighty-feven,  made  in  confequence 
of  the  appHcation  of  the  iliid  John  Cleves 
Symmes,  for  the  purchafe  of  the  trad  aforefaid. 

The  lands        Scc.  4.  And  be  it  further  enabled.  That  the 
to  be  locat-  feveral  quantities   of  land,  to  be  granted  and 
b?c  toTfor-  conveyed  as  aforefaid,  fiiall  be  included  and  lo- 
nicrii^ft.      cated  within  fuch  limits  and  Hues  of  boundary, 
as  the  Prefident  may  judge  expedient,  agreea- 
bly to    an  act  pafled  the  twelfth  day  of  April 
one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and  ninety  two. 


(       119       ) 

"  for  afcertaiiiing  the  bounds  of  a  traft  of  land 
purchafed  by  John  Cleves  Symmes." 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the  Iloufe 
of  Reprefentatives. 

RICHARD  HENRY  LEE,    Prefidcnt pro  tempore 
oj  the  Senate. 
Approved,  May  fifth,  1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefidcnt  of  the  United  States. 

C  H  A  P  T  E  R~XXXL 

An  ACT  to  alter  the  time  for  the   next   anmial  Meeting  of 
Congrefs, 

BE  it  enaded  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of  Re- 
prefentatives of  the  United  States  of  America, 
in  Congrefs  affembled^  That  after  the  adjourn- 
ment of  the  prefent  Seffion,  the  next  annual 
meeting  of  Congrefs  (liall  be  on  the  firfl  Mon- 
day in  November  next. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the  Houfe 
of  Reprefentatives. 

RICHARD  HENRY  LEE,    Prefident  pro  tempore 
of  the  Senate. 
Approved,  May  fifth,  179'?. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States. 

CHAPTER     XXXII. 

An    ACT  concerning  the  Duties  on  Spirits  dijtilled  zvithin, 
theUnited  States. 

Sec.  I.  "|3  E  /"/  enabled  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe  Formsniu- 
J3  of  RepreferJati-ves  of  the  United  States  ties-rtcrdia 
of  America,  in  Congrefs  afjcmbled.  That  from  and  june'^^^o"^ 
after  the  laft  day  of  June  next,  the  prefent  du-  ^^c^fc,  naJ 
ties   upon  fpirits  dilliiled    within  the  United 
States,  and  on  ftills  (hall  ceafe,  and  that  in  lieu 
thereof,  upon  all  fpirits  which  after  the  faid 
day  Ihall  be  diltilled  within  the  United  States 
wholly  or  in  part  from  molalles,  fugar  Or  other 
foreign  materials,  there  (hall  be  paid  the  duties 
following,  that  Is  to  fay  : 


(         i-o        ) 

Other  duties  Foi"  cvcry  galloii  of  thofe  fplrlts  of  the  hrft 
to  v.e  paM  clafs  of  proof,  ten  cents  ; — for  every  gallon  of 
dTftaiecffrom  thofc  fpirts  of  the  fecond  clafs  of  proof,  eleven 
foreign  ma-  cents  ; — for  every  gallon  of  thofe  fpirits  of  the 
third  clafs  of  proof,  twelve  cents  ; — for  every 
gallon  of  thofe  fpirits  of  the  fourth  clafs  of 
proof,  fourteen  cents  ; — for  every  gallon  of 
thofe  fpirits  of  the  fifth  clafs  of  proof,  eighteen 
cents  ; — for  every  gallon  of  thofe  fpirits  of  the 
fixth  clafs  of  proof,  twenty  five  cents. — x'\nd 
upon  all  fpirits  which  after  the  faid  day  (hall  be 
diftilled  within  the  UnitedStates  from  materials 
of  the  growth  or  produce  of  the  United  States, 
in  any  city,  town  or  village,  at  any  diftillery 
at  which  there  fhall  be  one  or  more  Ifills" which 
fmgly  or  together  fliall  be  of  the  capacity  of 
four  hundred  gallons  or  upwards,  there  fliall 
be  paid  the  duties  following,  that  is  to  fay  ; 

On  fp5rits  "^^^  cvcry  gallon  of  thofe  fpirits  of  the  firll 
diftiUed  of  clafs  of  proof,  feven  cents; — for  every  gallon 
^Y  7u"r\'  of  thofe  fpirits  of  the  fecond  clafs   of  proof,  - 

als  of  the  U-      .,  "  ^  ,,  r      ^       r      r   •    ■ 

States.        eight  cents  ; — tor  every  gallon  or  thole  Ipn-its 
of  the  third  clafs  of  proof,    nine  cents , — for 
every  gallon  of  thofe  fpirits  of  the  fourth  clafs 
of  proof,  eleven  cents  ; — for  every  gallon  of 
thofe  fpirits  of  the  fifth  clafs  of  proof,  thirteen 
cents  ; — for  every  gallon  of  thofe  fpirits  of  the 
fixth  clafs  of  proof,  eighteen  cents. — And  upon 
ml  °^     ftilJs  v/hich  after  the  faid  day  iliall  be  employed 
in  diftilling  fpirits  from  materials  of  the  grov/th 
or  produce  of  the  United  States,  at  any  other 
place  that  a  city,  town  or  village,  or  at  any 
diftillery  in  a  city,  town  or  village  at  which 
there  fhall  be  one  or  more  ftills  which  fmgly  if 
only  one,  or  together  if  more  than  one  fliall  be 
of  lefs  capacity  than  four  hundred  gallons,  there 
fhall  be  paid  the  yearly  duty  of  filty  four  cents 
for  every  gallon  Englifli  wine  meafure  of  the 
capacity  or  content  of  each  and  every  fuch  (till 
including  the  head  thereof: — Provided,  That  it 


(  121  ) 

fhall  be  at  the  option  of  the  proprietor  or  poflef-  j^^,^,  p^.j^ 
for  of  any  fuch  ftiil,  inftead  of  the  faid  yearly 
duty,  either  to  pay  feven  cents  for  every  gallon 
of  fpirits  by  him  or  her  didilled,  or  to  pay  at  the 
rate  of  ten  cents  per  gallon  of  the  capacity  for 
each  and  every  month  of  the  employment  of  Owners  in 
any  fuch  dill ;  and  in  cafe  the  faid  proprietor  ^^^^t^  "f" 
or  poffeifor  fhall  elect  to  pay  either  the  faid  rate  ^J^^l^^  ej,t,.y 
of  feven  cents  per  gallon,  of  the  fpirits  by  him.Gfiiiiis,&c. 
or  her  diftilled,  or  the  faid  monthly  rate  of  ten 
cents,  according  to  the  capacity  of  his  or  her 
ftill  or  dills,  he  or  (he  at  the  time  of  making 
entry  of  his  or    her   ftill  or  dills  in  manner 
herein  after  dire-fled,  fhall  by  writing  under  his  ^^.^  i^t^'o 
or  her    hand,  left   at  the  office  of  infpedion  for  working 
where  fuch  entry  fhall  be  made,  notify  the  faid  *'^*^'"''- 
eleftion,  and  if  the  fame  fhall  be  to  pay  the  faid 
monthly  rate  of  ten  cents,  fhall  demand  a  li- 
cence for  the  term  of  time,  fpecifying  the  day 
of  commencing  and  the  day  of  ending,  during 
which  he  or  fhe  fhall  intend  to  work  his  or  her 
dill  or  dills,  which  licence  fhall  without  delay 
or  expenfe  to  the  faid  proprietor  or  pofTeffor  be 
granted,  and  fliall  be  figned  by  the  fupervifors 
of  the  revenue  and  counterfigned  by  the  officer 
at  whofe  office  application  tor  the  fame  fliall 
have  been  made.  And  in  the  cafe  of  an  election 
to  pay  the  faid  monthly  rate  of  ten  cents,  it  (hall 
not  be  lawful  for  any  perfon  by  whom  the  fame 
fhall  have  been  made,  to  work  his  or  her  dill 
or  dills,  at  any  time,  within  the  year  from  the 
date  of  his  or  her  entry  thereof,  other  than  that 
for    which  a  Hcenfe  (hall  have  been  granted, 
unlefs  he  or  (he  (hall  have  previoudy  obtainecl 
another  licence  for  fuch  further  time,  which 
upon  like  application  (hall,  and  may  be  granted, 
in  like  manner,  and  if  any   fuch   perfon  fnall 
work  his   or  her  dill  or  dills,  contrary  to  the 
direction  or  provifion  aforefaid,  he  or  (he  fliall 


(  ^22  ) 

Penalty  for  forfeit  and  pay  for  every  fuch  oftence,  two 
iu!b 'with-  hundred  dollars.  And  in  every  cafe  in  which 
out  licence,  any  proprietor  or  poffeflbr  of  a  ftill  or  (tills  fub- 
jeft  to  the  payment  of  duty  according  to  the 
capacity  of  fuch  ftill  or  flills,  fliall  not  make 
eledion  to  pay  according  to  one  or  the. other 
of  the  alternatives  aforefaid  ;  or  (hall  not  duly 
comply  therewith,  he  or  (he  (hall  be  liable  to 
pay,  and  fhall  pay  the  f^iid  yearly  rate  of  fifty 
four  cents  for  every  gallon  of  the  capacity  or 
capacities  of  his  or  her  (lill  or  ftills. 

officeofin-  Sec.  2.  Aud  be  it  further  enadcd.  That  there 
fpedion  in  |^g  jj^  g^^]^  couuty  Comprehended  within  any 
for  ent'ry"o'f  diflrld',  at  Icaft  onc  office  of  infpedion,  at  which 
ftiiis&c.  every  perfon  having  or  keeping  a  ftill  or  ftills 
witlTWi  fuch  county,  (hall  between  the  laft  day 
of  May,  and  the  firft  day  of  July  in  each  year, 
make  entry  of  fuch  ftill  or  ftills  ;  and  at  which 
every  perfon,  who  being  a  refident  within  the 
county  fliall  procure  a  ftill  or  ftills,  or  who  re- 
moving within  a  county,  fliall  bring  therein  a 
ftill  or  ftills,  ihail  within  thirty  days  after  fuch 
procuring  or  removal,  and  before  he  or  (he 
fhall  begin  to  ufe  fliuch  ftill  or  ftills,  make  en- 
try thereof.  And  every  entry  befides  defcrib- 
ing  each  ftill  and  the  capacity  thereof,  (hall 
fpecify  the  place  where,  and  the  perfon  in 
whofe  po(refrion  it  is,  and  the  purpofe  for  which 
it  is  intended,  as  whether  for  fale  or  ufe  in 
diftilling  ;  and  in  the  cafe  of  removal,  fliall  fpe- 
cify the  place  from  which  every  fuch  ftill  (hall 
have  been  brought. 

Sec.  3.  And  be  it  further  ena^ed.  That  every 

Proprietors  proprietor  and  po(reiror  of  a  ftill  fliall  be  jointly 

able  fordu-  and  fever  ally   liable  for  the  duty   thereupon  ; 

tyonfiiiis.  and  that  every  owner  of  land,  upon  which  any 

ftill  fliall  be  worked,  fliall  be  liable  for  the  duty 

thereupon,  unlels  the  fame  (hall  be  worked  by 

a  lawful  and  bona  fide  tenant  of  the  land  of  an 


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eflate,  not  lefs  than  for  the  term  of  one  year,  or 
unlefs  fuch  owner  can  make  it  appear,  that  the 
polTeflbr  of,  or  perfon  by  whom  fuch  flill  fliall 
have  been  worked,  was  during  the  whole  time 
of  working  the  fame,  a  trefpalTer  or  intrudei" 
on  his  land. 

Sec.  4.  Andhe  it  further  enabled.  That  every  officers  to 
officer  of  infpedion  within  whofe  furvey  any  'orbear  in- 
diftillery  of  geneva  or  fweet  cordials,  fubject  to  ![n,^J."fge^' 
the  payment  of  duty  by  the  gallon  of  the  fpirits  neva  for  2 
diftilled  thereon  may  be,  fhall  forbear  to  vifit  or  ^°""'  ^'' 
infped:    for  a  fpace  not  exceeding  two  hours 
in  each  day,  fuch  part  of  the  faid  diftillery  as 
he  maybe  required  by  the  proprietor,  pofTeffor 
or  manager  of  fuch  difliilery  to  forbear  to  vifit 
and  infpect,  for  which  purpofe    it  fliall  be  ne- 
cefiary  for  the  faid  proprietor,  pofftiTor  or  ma-  en  written 
nager,    to  give    notice  in  writing  to  the  faid- "o^'^^e  from 
officer,  defcribing  therein  particularly  the  part  Jorsf*^"^^'^' 
of  fuch  difliilery,  which  it  fhall  be  his  defire 
that  the  faid  ofHcer  may  forbear  to  vifit  and  in- 
fped,  and  fpecifying  the  time  of  each  day  for 
which  fuch  forbearance  fnall  be  defired. 

Sec.  5.  And  belt  further  enacted.  That  it  fliall  Sex-'yofthe 
be  in  the  difcretion  of  the  Secretary  of  the  t«afury  to 
Treafury  to  regulate  as  well  the  marks,  to  be  nSsupon 
fet  upon  the  cafks,  veffels  and  packages  con-  ^aiks,  &c, 
taining  diflilled  fpirits,  as  the  forms  of  the  cer- 
tificates which  are  to  accompany  the  fame,  and 
that  when  any  calk  or  vefi'el  in  which  diflilled 
fpirits  have  been  contained,  fliall  have  been 
emptied  of  its   contents,   it  fhall  be  lawful  for 
the  marks  thereupon  to  be  effaced  by,  or  in  the 
prefence  of  an  officer  of  infpeclion,  and  if  the 
faid  cafk  or  velTel  fliall  afterwards  be  ufed  for 
putting  therein  other  fpirits,  the  fame  may  be 
marked  anew. 

Sec,  6.  And  he  it  further  enaBcd,  That  inflead  Notice  to 
of  a  notice  of  twenty-four   hours  heretofore  ^^S'vcu for 


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d?awbi"k    ^f^pi^e^   t?  be  given  of  the  Intent  to  export 
onfpiritsex.  di^iHed  fpirits  in  order  to  the  benefit  of  the 
ported.       drawback  of  the  duties  thereupon,  fix  hours 
fhall  be  fuflicient. 

Abatement  Sec.  7.  And  be  it  further  eria&ed.  That  there 
for  leakage,  j^g  ^j^  abatement  for  leakage  gt  the  rate  of  two 
per  cent,  in  every  cafe  in  which  the  duty  fliall  be 
payable  by  the  gallon  of  the  fpirits  diftilled,  to 
be  allowed  at  the  diftillery  where  fuch  fpirits 
fliall  be  made. 

Srs^'onn"      ^^^'  ^'  ^^^^  ^^  ^^  further  enaded,    That  the 
fpeition      officer  of  infpedion  within  whofe  furvey  any 
herein.       f|-ji|  (}^j;^)|  ]^q^  ([^q  ^^^■y  whereupon  is  payable  ac- 
cording to  the  capacity  of  the  fiill  fhall  identify 
by  progreffive  numbers  and  other  proper  marks, 
every  fuch  ftill  within  his  furvey,  and  the  duty 
,        thereupon  fhall  operate  as  a  fpecific  lien  upon 
the  faid  flilu 

&c.offp?rits      ^^^'  9*  Andhe'it  fuj'ther  enacled^l^h-iX  t\^\^ 
when  to  re.  diftiller  of,  and  dealer  in  fpirits,  who  may  have 
qa".r]ty'on  ^^  ^is   or    her  poffeffion,  diftilled  fpirits   not 
hand;        marked  or  certified,  purfuant  to  the  aft  intitu- 
led "  An  act  repealing  after  the  laft  day  of  June 
next,  the  duties  heretofore  laid  upon  diftilled 
fpirits  imported  from  abroad,  and  laying  oihers 
in  their  (lead, and  alfo  upon  fpirits  dillilled  with- 
in the  United  States,  and  for  appropriating  the 
fame,"  fliall  prior  to  the  lafl  day  of  September 
next,  report  the  fpirits  in  his  or  her  poifeiTion, 
in  writing  at  fome  office  of  infpeftion,  to  the 
cafksnot     end  that  fuch  fpirits  may  be  marked  and  cer- 
cm-dS  ^to  ^'^'^^^  ^^  ^'*^  flock.     And  that  from  and  after  the 
hwjiabieto  faid  hifl  day  of  September  next,  caflvs  and  vefTels 
fcizure,  >ic.  Qf  (j-^g  capacity  of  twenty  gallons  and  upwards, 
containing  diftilled  fpirits,  which  fhall  be  found 
in  the  poiielTion  of  any  difliller  or  dealer  in  fpi- 
rits, exccpr  at  a  diftillery  where  the  fame  were 
made,  or  in  going  from  one  place  to.  another, 
v/iihout  being  marked  according  to  law,  or  with- 


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out  having  a  certificate  from  fome  proper  offi- 
cer, fliall  be  liable  to  feizure  and  forfeiture,  and 
that  it  fnall  be  the  duty  of  the  feveral  officers  of 
infpeclion,  upon  requefl  of  any  dealer  or  diftil- 
ler  to  take  meafures  for  the  marking  of  calks, 
vtffeis  and  packages  containing  diflilled  fpirits, 
and  to  furniih  fuch  dealer  or  diitiller,  free  from  . 
expenfe,   with   certificates  to  acccompany  the  ),"£  To 
fame  ;  Pro'vidcd'i'h.zi  it  fhall  not  be  incumbent  mark  calks, 
upon  any  fuch  officer  to  mark  or  cerdfy  any  ^'^' 
cafk,  velfel  or  package   which  ought  to  have 
been  before  marked  or  certified  according  to 
any  law  of  the  United  States. 

Sec,    I  o.  And  he  it  further  enaded.  That  from  ^^^^^    ^. 
and  after  the  lafi:   day  of  April,  one  thoufand  pni  ^793 
feven  hundred  and  ninety  three,  no  diftilled  bSiVtou! 
fpirits  except  arrack  and  fweet  cordials,  fhall  be  states  in 
brought  into  the  United  States  f:om  any  foreign  ''^^^onf  ^f° 
port  or  place,  except  in  calks  or  veiTels  of  the  ca- 
pacity of  ninety  gallons  and  upwards. 

Sec.    II.  And  be  it  further  enaSied^  That  no  Drawbacks, 
drawback  of  the  duty  on  dillilled  fpirits  which  q^.^^^y',!. 
fhall  be  exported  after  the  lafl  day  of  June  next,  lowed. 
fnall  be  allowed  upon  any  quantity  lefs  than  one 
hundred  gallons. 

Sec.   12.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  af- Af:er  yane 
ter  the  lad  day  of  June  next,  no  diflilled  fpirits  "l^JZw 
fhall  be  brought  into  the  United  States,  from  be  imported 
any  foreign  port  or  place  in  any  cafk  or  vellel, 
which  fhall  have  been  marked  purfuant  to  any 
law  of  the  United  States  concerning   diltilled 
fpirits,  on  pain  of  forfeiture  of  the  fpirits  fo 
brought,  and  of  the  fnip  or  vefTel  in  which  they 
iliall  be  brought. 

Sec.    13.  And  be  it  further  ena6led.  That  If  P^'^^ity  on 
the  owner  or  pofi'efTor  ofany  flill  or  flills  fhall  "oniako'en- 
negleift  to  make  entry  thereof,  within  the  time  tryofiiiiis. 
and  in   the  manner  prefcribed  by  the  fecond 
feQion  of  this  acl.  fuch  owner  or  pofieHbr  fliall 


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forfeit  and  pay  the  fum  of  two  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars  ;  and  if  any  diftilled  fpirits,  except  ar- 
Certain  fpi-  ^^^^  ^"^  ^^eet  cordials  dnll,  after  the  hH  day 
rits  import-  of  April  ncxt  be  brought  into  the  United'States 
forfeimre-  ^^  ^'^^^^  ^^  veiTcls  of  lefs  Capacity  than   ninety 
penaitks,    gallons,  all  fuch  fpirits,  and  the  cafks  and  veffels 
how  diipof.  containing  the  fame,  iliall  be  fubjeft  to  feizure 
and  forfeiture,  and  every  fuch  penalty  or  for- 
feiture {half  be  one  half  to  the  ufe  of  the  Uni- 
ted  States,  and  the  other  half  to  the  ufe  of  the 
perfon  who  (hall  firll  difcover  and  make  known 
the  matter  or  thing  whereby  the  fame  lliali  have 
been  incurred. 

Continuati       Scc.  1 4.    ^i7d  be  it  further  enaSfed,  and  dc- 
klcT  htrdn'  ^^"^^^^^  '-f'hat  the  duties  hereby  laid  (hall  conti- 
for    what   nue  in  force,  for  the  fame  time,  and  are  hereby 
^To\^l^tll  P^^'^g^d  and  appropriated  to  and  for  the  fame 
purpofes,  as  thofe,  in  lieu  of  which  they  are  laid, 
and  purfuant  to  the  a6l  intituled    "  An  ad  re- 
pealing after  the  lad  day  of  June  next,  the  du- 
ties heretofore  laid  upon  diililled  fpirits  im- 
ported from  abroad,  and  laying  others  in  their 
itead,  and  a'fo  upon  fpirits  diililled  within  the 
United  States  and  for  appropriating  the  fame." 

f/'^'dtir  Sec.  15.  And  be  it  further  ena^ed.  That  to 
hereinmade  make  good  any  deficiency  which  may  happen 
goocibypro  -^^  coufequence  of  the  redudion  hereby  made 

ou6t  of   a     .  T  .  r   •    •  i-/x'ii     1 

certain  aft.  m  the  ratcs  ot  the  Quties  on  Ipirits  diltilled 
within  the  United  States,  and  on  ftills,  fo 
much  of  the  product  of  the  duties  laid  by  the 
ad  intituled  "  An  a6:  for  raifing  a  farther  fum 
of  money  for  the  protection  of  the  frontiers, 
and  for  other  purpofes  therein  mentioned,'* 
as  may  be  neceflary,  fhali  be  and  is  hereby 
pledged  and  appropriated  to  the  fame  purpofes, 
to  and  for  which  the  duties,  hereby  reduced, 
were  pledged  and  appropriated. 


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Sec.  1 6.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  the  Hiownnre 
Prefident  of  the  United  States  be  authorized  txl7^c? 
to  make  fuch  allowances  for  their  refpective  fer- 
vices  to  the  fupervifors,  infpeftors  and  other 
officers  of  infpedtion,  as  he  fhall  deem  reafona- 
ble  and  proper,  fo  as  the  faid  allowances,  toge- 
ther with  thfe  incidental  expenfes  of  colleding 
the  duties  on  fpirits  diftilled  within  the  Uni- 
ted States,  fhall  not  exceed  ^tNtw  and  an  half 
per  centum  of  the  total  producl  of  the  duties 
on  diftilled  fpirits,  for  the  period  to  which  the 
faid  allowances  fiiall  relate,  computing  from  the 
time  the  act  intituled  "  An  aft  repealing  after 
the  lall  day  of  June  next,  the  duties  heretofore 
laid  upon  diftilled  fpirits  imported  from  abroad, 
and  laying  others  in  their  llead,  and  alfo  upon 
fpirits  diftilled  within  the  United  States,  and  for 
appropriating  the  fame,  took  effed:  :  And  pro- 
vided alfo.  That  fuch  allowance  fhall  not  t^-^'.fjl^^ 
ceed  the  annual  amount  of  feventy  thoufand  dol-  dollars. 
lars,  until  the  fame  fhall  be  further  afcertained 
by  law. 

Sec.  17.  And  be  it  further  enacled.  That  the  cert^iin  act 
aa  intituled  "An  ad  repealing  after  the  laft  day  ;;,[Xn"i 
of  June  next,  the  duties  heretofore  lai  i  upon  the  duties, 
diftilled  fpirits  imported  from  abroad  and  lay-  ^'^^  *^^■■'■■"'• 
ing  others  in  their  ftead,  and  alfo  upon  fpirits 
diftilled  within  the  United  States,  and  for  ap- 
propriating the  fame,"  fnall  extend  to  and  be 
in  full  force  for  the  colledion  of  the  feveral  du- 
ties herein  before  mentioned  and  for  the  reco- 
very and  diftribution  of  the  penalties  and  for- 
feitures herein  contained  and  generally  for  the 
execution   of  this  ad,  as  fully  and  effedually 
as  if  every  regulation,  reftridion,  penalty,  pro- 
vifiori,  claufe,  matter  and  thing  therein  contain- 
ed were  inferted  in  and  re-enacted  by  this  pre- 


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fent  aft,  fubjed  only  to  the  akerations  hereby- 
made. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the  Houfe 
of  Reprefentatives. 

RICHARD  HENRY  LEE,   Prefident pro  teviporc 
of  the  Senate. 

Approved,   May  eighth,  1792. 

G^:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  Statef. 

CHAPTER     XXXIII. 

An  ACT  viore  effi'cl.uaUy  to  provide  for  the  National  Defence 
by  eflablifiing  an  Uniform  Militia  throughout  the  United 
States. 

Sec.  I.   13  E  //  enaBed  hy  the  Senate  and  Houfe 
Militia  how  JO     ^f  Reprcfentativcs    of  the  United 

and  by  States  of  America^  in  Congrefs  ajjenibled.  That 
e^'nroikd^^'each  and  every  free  able-bodied  white  male 
citizen  of  the  refpective  ftates,  refident  therein, 
who  is  or  {hall  be  of  the  age  of  eighteen  years, 
and  under  the  age  of  forty-five  years  (except 
as  is  herein  after  excepted)  fhall  feverally  and 
refpetSlively  be  enrolled  in  the  militia  by  the 
captain  or  commanding  officer  of  the  com- 
pany, within  whofe  bounds  fuch  citizen  Ihall 
refide,  and  that  within  twelve  months  after  the 
paffing  of  this  ad.  And  it  fliall  at  all  times  here- 
after be  the  duty  of  every  fuch  captain  or  com- 
manding officer  of  a  company  to  enrol  every 
fuch  citizen,  as  aforefaid,  and  alfo  thofe  who 
fhall,  from  time  to  time,  arrive  at  the  age  of 
eighteen  years,  or  being  of  the  age  of  eighteen 
years  and  under  the  age  of  forty-five  years 
(except  as  before  excepted)  fhall  come  to  refide 
within  his  bounds ;  and  ihall  without  delay 
notify  fuch  citizen  of  the  faid  enrolment,  by  a 
proper  non-coramiffioned  officer  of  the  compa- 
ny, by  whom  fuch  notice  may  be  proved.  That 
every  citizen  fo  enrolled  and  notified,  fnall. 


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within   fix   months  thereafter,  provide  hhnfelf  How  to  be 
with  a  pooJ  mulket    or    firelock,  a   fuliicient  ^"""^"^^  '\"'^ 

o  '  accoutred. 

bayonet  and  belt,  two  ipare  tiints,  and  a  knap- 
fack,  a  pouch  with  a  box  therein  to  contain  not 
lefs  than  twenty  four  cartridges,  fuited  to  the 
bore  of  his  mufket  or  firelock,  each  cartridge 
to  contain  a  proper  quantity  of  powder  and 
ball :  or  with  a  good  rifle,  knapfack,  (hot- 
pouch  and  powder-horn,  twenty-balls  fuited  to 
the  bore  of  his  rifle,  and  a  quarter  of  a  pound 
of  powder  ;  and  fliall  appear,  fo  armed,  accou- 
tred and  provided,  when  called  out  to  exercife, 
or  into  fervice,  except,  that  when  called  out 
on  company-days  to  exercife  only,  he  may  ap- 
pear without  a  knapfack.  That  the  commif- 
fioned  officers  fliall  feverally  be  armed  with  a 
fword  or  hanger  and  efpontoon,  and  that  from 
and  after  five  years  from  the  pafling  of  tliis  acl, 
all  mufquets  for  arming  the  militia  as  herein 
required,  fliall  be  of  bores  fuflicient  for  balls 
of  the  eighteenth  part  of  a  pound.  And  every 
citizen  fo  enrolled,  and  providing  himfelfwith 
the  arms,  ammunition  and  accoutrements  re- 
quired, as  aforefaid,  fliall  hold  the  fame  ex- 
empted from  all  fuits,  diftrefles,  executions  or 
fales,  for  debt  or  for  the  paym.ent  of  taxes. 

Sec.   2.  And  be  it  further  enaded.  That  the  j,^.^^^jj^.g 
Vice-Prefident  of  the  United  States  ;  the  ofli-  oiricers,&c. 
cers,  judicial  and  executive  of  the  government  "cmpted. 
of  the  United   States  ;    the  members  of  both 
houfes  of  Congrefs,  and    their  refpeftive  offi- 
cers ;  all  cufl:om-houfe  officers  with  their  clerks  ; 
all  pon:-officers,  and  ftage-drlvers,  who  are  em- 
ployed in  the  care  and  conveyance  of  the  mail 
of  the  pofl:-office  of  the  United  States  ;  all  fer- 
rymen em.ployed  at  any  ferry  on  the  pofl:-road  ; 
all  infpeclors  of  exports  ;  all  pilots  ;  all  mari- 
ners actually  employed  in  the  lea  fervice  of  any 
citizen  or  merchant  v/Ithin  the  United  States ; 
R 


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and  all  perfons  who  now  are  or  may  hereafter 
be  exempted  by  the  laws  of  the  refpeftive 
flates,  fliall  be,  and  are  hereby  exempted  from 
militia  duty,  notwithllanding  their  being  above 
the  age  of  eighteen,  and  under  the  age  of  forty- 
five  years. 
^Hlitiahow      Sec.  7.  And  bell  fi/rf/jerenacIed,Tncitwhh'm 

tobearran-  ^      r  i  m  r    ^  •        A         i  ■!■. 

ged,  and  ^^^  Y^ar  atter  the  paffing  or  this  act,  the  milina 
of  the  refpedive  ftates  (hall  be  arranged  into 
divifions,  brigades,  regiments,  battallions  and 
companies,  as  the  legiilature  of  each  (late  fhall 
direcl ;  and  each  divifion,  brigade,  and  regi- 
ment, fliall  be  numbered  at  the  formation 
thereof;  and  a  record  made  of  fuch  numbers 
in  the  adjutant-general's  office  in  the  (late  ;  and 
when  in  the  field,  or  in  fervice  in  the  ftate,  each 
divifion,  brigade  and  regiment  fliall,  refpedt- 
ively  take  rank  according  to  their  numbers,  re- 
coning  the  firfl  or  lowed  number  highefl  in 
rank.  That  if  the  fame  be  convenient,  each 
brigade  fliall  confill  of  four  regiments ;  each 
regiment  of  two  battallions  ;  each  battallion  of 
five  companies  ;  each  company  of  fixty-four 
by  whom  pHvates.  That  the  faid  militia  fhall  be  offi- 
©fficcred.  ccred  by  the  refpedive  flates,  as  follows  :  To 
each  divifion,  one  major-general  and  two  aids- 
de-camp,  with  the  rank  of  major  ;  to  each 
brigade,  one  brigadier-general,  with  one  bri- 
gade-infpeclor,  to  ferve  alfo  as  brigade-major, 
with  the  rank  of  a  major ;  to  each  regiment, 
one  lieutenant-colonel  commandant  ;  and  to 
each  battallion  one  major;  to  each  company 
one  captain,  one  lieutenant,  bne  enfign,  four 
>  ferjeants,  four  corporals,  one  drummer  and  one 
filer  or  bugler.  That  there  fhall  be  a  regi- 
mental flafT,  to  confill  of  one  adjutant  and  one 
quarter-maiier,  to  rank  as  lieutenants  ;  one  pay- 
mafler  ;  onefurgeon,  and  one  furgeon's  mate  ; 
one  ferjeant-major  ;  one  drum-major,  and  one 
fife-maior. 


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Sec.  4.  And  be  it  further  ena^ed.  That  out  Eachbattai- 
of  the  militia  enrolled,  as   is  herein  directed,  i'°"'oi^"c 
there    fliall  be  formed  for  each  battallion  at  nyVf°"gre' 
leall  one  company  of  grenadiers,  light  infantry  nadiers,&c. 
or  riflemen;  and  that  lo  each  divifion,  there  company  of 
fhall  be  at  lead  one  company  of  artillery,  and  artillery. 
one  troop  of  horfe :  there  lliall  be  to    each 
company  of  artillery,   one  captain,  two  lieute- 
nants, four  ferjeants,  four  corporals,  fix  gun- 
ners, fix  bombardiers,  one  drummer  and  one 
fifer.     The  officers  to  be  armed  with  a  fword  oncers 
or  hanger,  a  fufee,  bayonet  and   belt,    with  a  armed!° 
cartridge-box  to    contain    twelve  cartridges  ; 
and  each  private  or  matrofs  fliall  furnifh  him- 
felf  with  all  the  equipments  of    a  private  in 
the  infantry,  until  proper  ordinance  and  field 
artillery  is  provided.    There  fhall  be  to  each  Troops   of 
trooD  of  horfe,  one  captain,  two  lieutenants,  ^"I^''  ^'^^•'^ 
one  cornet,  tour  lerjeants,  tour  corporals,  one 
faddler,    one    farrier,    and     one     trumpeter. 
The  commiffioned   officers    to  furnifli    them- 
felves  with  good  horfes   of,  at  leaft  fourteen 
hands  and  an  half  high,  and  to  be  armed  with 
a    fword,  and  pair  of  piftols,   the  holflers   of 
which    to    be    covered     with    bearfkin   caps. 
Each  dragoon  to  furnifh  himfelf  with  a  fer- 
viceable   horfe,    at    leaft    fourteen  hands  and 
an    half  high,    a    good  faddle,  bridle,    mail- 
pillion  and   valife,  holfters,  and  a  breaft-plate 
and  crupper,  a  pair  of  boots  and  fpurs,  a  pair 
of  piftols,  a  fabre,  and  a  cartoucli-box,  to  con- 
tain twelve  cartridges  for  piftols.     That  each  Artillery  & 
company  of  artillery  and  troop  of  horfe   fliall  •^°''^«  «f 
be  formed  of  volunteers  from  the  brigade,  at  formc'd° 
the  difcretion  of  the    commander  in  chief  of 
the  ftate,  not  exceeding  one  company  of  each 
to  a  recjiment,  nor  more  in  number  than  one ,"  ""^  "!": 

t  1  (•    1        •     I-  1    n     ,1  ,  •     formly  clad 

eleventh  part  ot  the  mtantry,  and  fhall  be  uni-  attheirown 
formly  cloathed  in  regimentals,  to  be  furnifficd  ^^p^"^"^* 


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at  their  own  experxfe  ;  the  colour  and  fafhlon 
to  be  determined  by  the  brigadier  commanding 
the  brigade  to  which  they  iDelong. 

&?Ind  by  ^^^'  5'  ^^^^  ^^  it  further  enaded.  That  each 
whomtobc  battallion  and  regiment  fhall  be  provided  with 
furniiiied.  ^he  ftate  and  regimental  colours  by  the  field 
officers,  and  each  company  with  a  drum  and 
fife  or  bugle-horn,  by  the  commiffioned  officers 
of  the  company  in  fuch  manner  as  the  legisla- 
ture of  the  refpeftive  ftates  fhall  dired. 

Admtant-  Sec. ,  6.  And  be  it  further  enacled^  That  there 
general  in  {hall  be  an  adjutant-geueral  appointed  in  each 
S^du^y!'  ftate,  whofe  duty  it  fliall  be  to  diftribute  all  or- 
ders  from  the  commander  in  chief  of  the  itate 
to  the  feveral  corps  ;  to  attend  all  public  re- 
views when  the  commander  in  chief  of  the 
{late  fhall  review  the  militia,  or  any  part  there- 
of;  to  obey  all  orders  from  him  relative  to 
carrying  into  execution  and  perfefting  the 
fyftem  of  military  dicipline  eflabliihed  by  this 
aft  ;  to  furnifli  blank  forms  of  different  returns 
that  may  be  required,  and  to  explain  the  prin- 
ciples on  which  they  fliould  be  made  ;  to  re- 
ceive from  the  feveral  officers  of  the  different 
corps  throughout  the  flate,  returns  of  the 
militia  under  their  command,  reporting  the 
adual  fituation  of  their  arms,  accoutrements 
and  ammunition,their  delinquencies  and  eve- 
ry other  thing  which  relates  to  the  general 
advancement  of  good  order  and  dicipline  :  All 
which  the  feveral  officers  of  the  divifions,  bri- 
gades,  regiments  and  battallions,  are  hereby 
required  to  make  in  the  ufual  manner,  fo  that 
the  faid  adjutant-general  may  be  duly  furnifli- 
ed  therewith  :  From  all  which  returs,  he  ffiall 
make  proper  abftrafis,  and  lay  the  farne  annu- 
ally before  the  commander  in  chief  of  the  ftatc. 

F-uics   c£       Sec.  7.     And  he  it  further  enaBcd,  That  the 
rliicipiinc:    rules  of  dicipline,  approved  and  eflabliilred  by 


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Congrefs  In  their  refolution,  of  the  twenty-  Rules  of 
ninth  of  March,  one  thourand  feven  hundred  diftipiinc^ 
■dnd  feventy-nine,  fliall  be  the  rules  of  dici- 
pline  to  be  obferved  by  the  mihtia  throughout 
the  United  States,  except  fuch  deviations  from 
the  fcjd  rules  as  may  be  rendered  neceffary  by 
the  requifitions  of  this  aft,  or  by  fome  other 
unavoidable  circumflances.  It  fliall  be  the  duty 
of  the  commanding  oflicer  at  every  mufter, 
v/hether  by  battaliion,  regiment  or  fnigle  com- 
pany, to  caufe  the  militia  to  be  exercifed  and 
trained  agreeably  to  the  faid  rules  of  difcipline. 

Sec.  8.  Jnd  be  it  further  enatled.  That  all  officers 
commiiTioned  officers  fliall  take  rank  according  j4°n]^*°**^* 
to  the  date  of  their  commiffions  ;  and  when 
two  of  the  fame  grade  bear  an  equal  date,  then 
their  rank  to  be  determined  by  lot,  to  be  drawn 
by  them  before  the  commanding  oflicer  of  the 
brigade,  regiment,  battaliion,  company  or  de- 
tachment. 

Sec.  9.  And  be  it  further  enaded,  Thatif  any  pj-o^ig^^jj-^ 
perfon,  whether  officer  or  foldler,  belonging  to  cafe  of 
the  militia  of  any  fiate,  and  called  out  Into  the  ^^'°""^s,&c. 
fervice  of  the  United  States,  be  wounded  or 
difabled  while  in  actual  fervice,  he  fliall  be  taken 
care  of  and  provided  for  at  the  public  expenfe. 

Sec.  1  o.  And  be  it  further  enadcd.  That  it 
fliall  be  the  duty  of  the  brigade  Infpedlor,  to  fpeSrV"' 
attend  the  regimental  and  battaliion  meetings  duty. 
of  the  militia  compofmg  their  feveral  brigades, 
during  the  time  of  their  being  under  arms,  to 
infpect  their  arms,  ammunition  and  accoutre- 
ments ;  fuperlntend  their  exerclfe  and  ma- 
nceuvvres,  and  Introdue  the  fyftem  of  mili- 
tary difcipline  before  defcrlbed  throughout  the 
brigade,  agreeable  to  law,  and  fuch  orders  as 
they  fliall,  from  time  to  time  receive  from  the 
commander  in  chief  of  the  ftate  ;  to  make  re- 
turns to  the  adjutant-general  of  the  itate,  at 


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Brigade  in-  leaft  oiice  in  every  year,  of  the  militia  of  the 
fpcdtor's  brigade  to  which  he  belongs,  reporting  there- 
"'^'  in  the  a6lual  fituation  of  the  arms,  accoutre- 
ments and  ammunition  of  the  feveral  corps, 
and  every  other  thing  which,  in  his  judgment 
may  relate  to  their  government  and  the  general 
advancement  of  good  order  and  military  difci- 
pline  ;  and  the  adjutant-general  fhall  make  a 
return  of  all  the  militia  of  the  ftate,  to  the 
commander  in  chief  of  the  faid  ftate,  and  a 
duplicate  of  the  fame  to  the  Prefident  of  the 
United  States. 

Artillery         And  whcrcas  fundry  corps  of  artillery,  ca- 

&c.nowex-  valry    and  infantry,  now  exift  in  feveral  of  the 

*  *"^'        faid  dates,  which  by  the  laws,  cuftoms  or  ufages 

thereof  have  not  been   incorporated  with,    or 

fubject  to  the  general  regulations  of  the  militia  : 

to  retain         Scc.  II.     Be   it  further  enaded.  That  fuch 
w^  ^'"^''  corps  retain  their  accuftomed  privileges,  fub- 
ject, never thelefs,  to  all  other  duties  required 
by  this  ad  in  Hke  manner  with  the  other  mi- 
litia. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the  Houft 
of  Reprefentatives. 

RICHARD  HENRY  LEE,   Prefident  pro  tempore 
oj  the  Senate. 

Approved,  May  eighth,  1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prejident  of  the  United  States. 


CHAPTER     XXXIV. 

An  ACT  relative  to  the  Compenfations  to  certain  Officers 
employed  in  the  colleElion  of  the  Duties  of  Impojl  and  Ton- 
nage. 

Sec.  i.T>  E  it  ena&sdby  the  Senate  and  Hon fc  of 

^^Reprefentatives  of  the  United  States  of 

America^in  Congref  ajfemblcd.  That  from  and  af. 


leges 


(       I3S      ) 

ter  the  laft  day  of  June  next,  in  addition  to  llie  Additional 
fees  and  emoluments  which  may  accrue  to  the  [i''-'*^'^  ^'' 
ofhcers  employed  m  the  collection  or  the  duties  iVom  ift  ju- 
of  impoil  and  tonnage,  by  the  provifions  already  ^v  "^st  to 
made,  they  fiiall  feverally  have,  and  be  enti-  veyo-s'  a"nd 
tied  to  the  refpeclive  allowances  following,  to  coiicvfiors. 
wit  f  The  furveyors  of  Newburyport,  Salem, 
Saint  Mary's  and  Wilmington  in  North-Ca- 
rolina, the  yearly  fum  of  one  hundred  dol- 
lars, each  ;  the  furveyors  of  Beverley,  North 
Kingfton,  Eaft  Greenwich,  Warren,  Brillol, 
Pawcatuck-river,  Providence,  Patuxet,  New 
Haven,  Lewellenfburg,  Alexandria,  Beaufort, 
Hertford,  Winton,  Bennet's-creek,  Plymouth, 
Windfor,  Skewarkey,  Murfreefborough,  Nix- 
onton,  Indian-tov/n,  Currituck-inlet,  Pafquo- 
tank-river  bridge,  and  Newbiggen  creek,  the 
yearly  fum  of  eighty  dolb.rs,  each;  the  furveyor 
of  Portfmouih,  the  yearly  fum  of  fixty  dollars  ; 
the  furveyors  of  Ipfwich,  Portland,  Newport, 
Stonington,  Middleton,  Bermuda-Hundred, 
Peterfburg,  Richmond  and  Savannah,  the 
yearly  fum  of  fifty  dollars,  each  ;  the  furvey- 
ors of  Gloucefter,  New  London  and  Swanfbo- 
rough,  the  yearly  fum  of  thirty  dollars,  each  ; 
the  furveyors  of  Hudfon,  Little  Egg-harbor, 
Suffolk,  Smithheld,  Urbanna,  and  Frederick- 
fburg,  the  yearly  fum  of  twenty  dollars,  each  ; 
the  collector  of  the  diflricl  of  Wilmington  in 
North  Carolina,  the  yearly  fum  of  one  hundred 
and  fifty  dollars  ;  the  collectors  of  the  diflricts 
of  Portfmouth,  Gloucefler,  Albany,  Annapolis, 
Vienna,  Nottingham,  York-town,  Dumfries 
and  Louifville,  the  yearly  fuai  of  one  hun- 
dred dollars,  each  ;  the  colledor  of  the  di- 
ftrict  of  Fairfield,  the  yearly  fum  of  eighty  dol- 
lars  ;  the  colletlors  of  the  diilricls  of  Marblc- 
headj  Plymouth,  Barnftable,  Nantucket,  New 
Bedford,  Dighton,  York,  Biddeford  and  Pep- 


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perelborough,  Bath,  Wifcaflet,  Machias,  New- 
port, New  Haven,  Perth  Amboy,  Great  Egg- 
harbor,  Wilmington  in  Delaware,  Chefter, 
Cedar-point,  George-town,  Hampton,  South 
Quay,  Waihington,  Plank-  bridge  and  George- 
town in  South  Carolina,  the  yearly  fum  of  fif- 
ty dollars,  each  ;  the  naval  officer  of  the  di- 
ftri£l  of  Portfmouth,  the  yearly  fum  of  one 
hundred  dollars  ;  the  naval  officers  of  the  di* 
flricls  of  Newburyport,  Newport,  Providence, 
Wilmington  in  North  Carolina  and  Savannah, 
the  yearly  fum  of  fifty  dollars,  each  ;  the  col- 
ledlor  of  the  diftricl  of  Salem  and  Beverley, 
one  fourth  of  one  per  centum  on  the  amount  of 
all  monies  by  him  received  on  account  of  the 
faid  duties  ;  and  to  the  colle6lors  of  the  diftrids 
of  Portfmouth,  Newburyport,  Gloucefter,  Mar- 
blehead,  Plymouth,  Nantucket,  Edgartown, 
New  Bedford,  Dighton,  York,  Biddeford  and 
Pepperelborough,  Portland,  Bath,  Wifcaflet, 
Penobfcot,  Frenchman's  bay,  Machias,  New- 
port, Providence,  New  Haven,  Fairfield,  Perth- 
Amboy,  Burlington,  Great  Egg-harbor,  Wil- 
mington in  Delaware,  Oxford,  Vienna,  Snow- 
hill,  Annapolis,  Nottingham,  Cedar-point, 
George-town  in  Maryland,  Hampton,  York- 
town,  Yeocomico,  Dumfries,  Foley-landing, 
Cherryftone,  South  Quay,  Wilmington  in 
North  Carolina,  Newbern,  Wafliington,  Eden- 
ton,  Plank-Bridge,  George-town  in  South  Ca- 
rolina, Beaufort,  and  Savannah,  each,  one  half 
of  one  per  centum  on  the  amount  of  all  monies 
by  them  refpeftively  received  on  account  of  the 
duties  aforefaid. 

To  coiicc-  Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enaclcd^ThzXiVom 
tors  of  N.  and  after  the  laft  day  of  June  next,  the  ailow- 
prnnfTva-  ^^^^  ^^  \.hYeQ  fourths  of  ODC  per  ccntum  to  the 
nia  I  of  I  colledlors  of  the  diftricts  of  Penniylvania  and 
pcr^  cent.,  j|^g  ^-^^   ^f  NewYoik,  OH  thc  aniount   of  all 


(       ^Zl       ) 

monies  by  them  refpedively  received,  on  ac- 
count of  the  duties  of  impofl  and  tonnage, 
fnall  ceafe,  and  inftead  thereof,  they  fliall,  af- 
ter that  time,  be  entitled  to  one  half  of  one  per 
centum  on  all  fuch  monies  by  them  refpective- 
ly  received. 

Sec.  3.  And  he  it  further  enacted,  Tliat  from  ores  rent 
and  after    the    lafh  day  of  June  next,  the  ex-  &5-of  «r- 
penfe  of  fuel,  office-rent  and  neceflary  ftationa-  Srsjiolvt'o 
ry,  for  the  collectors   of  the   diftridls  of  Salem  be  paid, 
and   Beverley,   Bofton   and  Charleflown,    the 
cities  of  New  York,  Philadelphia    and  Charlef- 
ton,    the    towns    of  Baltimore,  Norfolk    and 
Portfmouth,  fnall  be  paid,  three  fourths  by  the 
faid  Colledors  and  the  other  fourth  by  the  re- 
fpeclive  naval-officers  in  thofe  diilricls. 

Sec.  4.  And  be  it  further  enaSted,  That  when-  Commfii-  ^ 
ever  a  collector  fhall  die,  the  commiffions,  to  of  a'^wiiL- 
which  he  would  have  been  entitled  on   the   re-  ^°->  ^°^^ 
ceipt  of  all  duties  bonded  by  him,    fhall  be '^'*^°^''^ '^* 
equally  divided  between    the  legal  reprefenta- 
tives  of  fuch  deceafed   colledor    and  his  fuc- 
cefibr  in  office,  whofe  duty  it  fhall  be  to  collect 
the  fame  ;  and  for  this  purpofe  the   faid  repre- 
fentatives  fhall  deliver  over  to  fuch  fuccefibr  all 
the   pubHc   or  official   books,  papers   and  ac- 
counts of  the  faid  deceafed. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the  Houfe 
of  Reprefentatives. 

RICHARD  HENRY   LEE,  Prefident  pro  tempore 
of  the  Senate^ 
>ApproV£d J  May  eighth,  1792. 

G^:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States, 


(       138      ) 
CHAPTER    XXXV. 

An  ACT  to  coiitinm  in  force  the  AB:,  intituled,  "  An  aEi  to 
provide  for  mitigating  or  remitting  the  Penalties  and  For' 
feitures  accruing  under  the  Revenue  Laws  in  certain  Cafes," 
and  to  viake further  Frovifio7ifor  the  Payment  of  Penfions 
to  Invalids. 

Sec  I .  TJ  E  it  enaBedby  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of 
Theaa  for  J[3  Reprefentcitlves  of  the  United  States  of 

remitting     America,  in  Con^rcfs  aifembled.  That  the  ad,  enti- 

Or    mitieat-  c:i    j     m       ^         ^__         ^  '^ 

incr  forfeit-  tied,"  All  aft  to  provide  for  mitigating  or  remit- 
ures,  &c.  ting  the  forfeitures  and  penalties  accruing  under 
fonyears.  ^^^  revenue  laws  in  certain  cafes  therein  men- 
tioned," Ihall  be,  and  hereby  is,  continued  in 
full  force  for  the  term  of  three  years,  from  the 
paffing  of  this  aft,  and  no  longer.  Provided, 
That  nothing  in  the  faid  aft  fhall  be  conftrued 
to  limit  or  reflrain  the  power  of  the  Prefident 
of  the  United  States  to  grant  pardons  for 
oiiences  againft  the  United  States. 

Penfions  to  Sec.2.Andbe  it  further  (^z-^flc?^^,  That  the  yearly 
be  paid  for  penfions  which  have  been,  or  may  be,  allowed 
Ith^^Mafch  t>y?  ^^  ^^  purfuance  of,  any  aft  or  law  of  the 
M.  United  States,  to  perfons  who  were  wounded 

and  difabled  in  the  public  fervice,  Ihall  for  the 
fpace  of  one  year  from  the  fourth  day  of  March 
lad  be  paid  out  of  the  treafury  of  the  United 
States,  under  fuch  regulations  as  the  Prefi- 
dent of  the  United  States  may  direft. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the  Houfe 
of  Reprefentatives. 

RICHARD  HENRY  LEE,  Prefident  pro  tempore 
of  the  Senate. 

Approved,   May  eighth,  1792. 

G".  V^ASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States. 


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CHAPTER     XXXVI. 

An  ACT  for  regulating  Proceffes  in  the  Courts  of  the  United 
States,  and  providing  Compenfations  for  the  Officers  of  the 
/aid  Courts,  and  for  Jurors  and  Witnejfcs. 

Sec.  I .   T-^E  it  enaded  by  ihe  Senate  and  Houfe 

^^   of  Reprefentati-ves    of  the    United  Writs  by 
States  of  America^  in  Congrefs  affejubled.    That  hoTattd"- 
all  writs  and  procefl'es  iirulng  from  the  fupreme  ed. 
or  a  circuit  court,  fhall  bear  teft  of  the  chief 
jufHce  of  the  fupreme   court  (or  if  that  office 
fliall  be  vacant)  of  the  affociate  juflice  next  in 
precedence  ;  and  all  writs  and  proceffes  ifl'uing 
from  a  diilricl  court,  fhall  bear  tefl  of  the  judge 
of  fuch  court   (or  if  that  office  ffiall  be  vacant) 
of  the  clerk  thereof,  which  faid  writs  and  pro- 
ceffies  fliall  be  under  the  feal  of  the  court  from 
whence  they  ilTue,  and  figned   by  the  clerk 
thereof.     The  feals  ffiail  be  provided  at  the  ex-  and  feals 
penfe  of  the  United  States.  P'°^''^'^- 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enaSfed,  That  the  Forms  of 
forms  of  writs,  executions  and  other  procefs,  ^^"'^' ^^• 
except  their  ftile  and  the  forms  and  modes  of 
proceeding  in  fuits  in  thofe  of  common  law 
Ihall  be  the  fame  as  are  now  ufed  in  the  faid 
courts  refpeftively  in  purfuance  of  the  atl,  en- 
titled, "  An  act  to  regulate  proceiTes  in  the 
courts  of  the  United  States,"  in  thofe  of  equity 
and  in  thofe  of  admiralty  and  maritime  jurif- 
didion  according  to  the  principles,  rules  and 
ufages  which  belong  to  courts  of  equity  and  to 
courts  of  admiraky  refpeciively,  as  contra- 
diilinguifhed  from  courts  of  common  law  ;  ex- 
cept fo  far  as  may  have  been  provided  for  by 
the  acl  to  eflabliih  the  judicial  courts  cf  the 
United  States,  fubjed  however  to  fuch  altera- 
tions and  additions  as  the  faid  courts  refpec- 
tively  fliall  in  their  difcretion  deem  expedient, 
or  to  fuch  regulations  as  the  fupreme  court  of 
the  United  States  fhall  think  proper  from  time 


ferving 
writs  &c 


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to  time  by  rule  to  prefcrlbed  to  any  circuit  or 
Y-^%  diflria  court  concerning  the  fame  :  Provided^ 
take  out  a  i  Hat  on  judgments  m  any  or  the  cafes  arorefaid 
capiasadfa-  where  difFcrent  kinds  of  executions  are  iffuable 

tis faciendum  '        r  rr  •  1    r  .•   r     •       •  t- 

in  firft  in-  ^^  luccciiion,   a  capias  ad  JaUsfaciendum   being 
ilance.       one,  the  plaintiff  fhail  have  his  election  to  take 

out  a  capias  ad  fat'ufacimdum  in  the  nrfl  in- 

ftance. 

Fees  for  Sec.  3.  And  he  it  further  enaded.  That  from 
and  after  the  paffmg  this  a6l,  the  fees  and  com- 
penfations  to  the  feveral  officers  and  other  per- 
fons  hereafter  mentioned,  fhall  be  as  follows  -, 
that  is  to  fay,  to  the  marflials  of  the  feveral 
diftricls  of  the  United  States,  for  the  fervice  of 
any  writ,  warrant,  attachment  or  procefs  in 
chancery,  on  each  perfon  named  in  the  fame 
two  dollars  :  for  his  travel  out  in  ferving  each 
writ,  warrant,  attachment  or  procefs  aforefaid 
five  cents  per  mile,  to  be  computed  from  the 
place  of  fervice  to  the  court  where  the  writ  or 
procefs  fliall  be  returned  ;  and  if  more  per- 
lons  than  one  are  named  therein,  the  travel 
ftall  be  computed  from  the  court  to  the  place 
of  fervice  which  is  moft  remote,  adding  there- 
to the  extra  travel  neceffary  to  ferve  it  on  the 
other  :  Provided ,  That  the  fee  for  travel  where 
there  is  one  perfon  named  in  fuch  writ,w^af'rant, 
attachment  or  procefs,  fhall  in  no  cafe  exceed 
feven  dollars,  and  when  there  are  more  than 
one  the  fee  for  extra  travel  faall  not  exceed 
one  dollar  above  feven  dollars  for  each  perfon. 
i)"onds7"  For  each  bail  bond,  fifty  cents :  for  felHng 
for  felling   p-Qods  and  veffels  condemned,    and  receiving 

veiTcls   and  '->     ,  .  ,  ,  ^  ^ 

oQods;  and  paying  the  money  three  per  cent  :  tor 
commit-  every  commitment  or  difcharge  of  a  prifoner, 
cha'r-rcf'i  fi^^ty  cents  :  for  fummoning  witneffes,  where  he 
prifoner;  cocs  it,  each  thirty  ccuts  *.  for  fummoning  a 
In^  \,rks  g^'^^^d  or  petit  jury,  each  three  dollars  :  Pro- 
'"^  J"''"'  ^,/^/^a^^  xhat  ia  thofe  dates  v/here  jurors  by  the 


for    bail 


(        HI       ) 

laws  of  the  ftate  are  drawn  b)'^  conftables  or  Provifo  in 
other  officers  of  corporate  towns  or  places  by  [f^^^'^j.^J^ 
lot,  the  marihals  iliall  receive  for  the  ufe  of  fuch  nables ; 
conitables  or  officers  the  fees   allowed  for  fum- 
moninpj  juries  :     For  attending  the  fupreme,  .^f""  a"end- 

•iTL'o.  r  in  J  ine  courts: 

circuit  or  dilrrict  courts  rive  dollars  per  day,  ^ 
and  at  the  rate  of  ten  cents  per  mile  for  his 
expenfes  and  time  in  travelling  from  the  place 
of  his  abode  to  either  of  the  faid  courts  :  For  levying  ex- 
levying  an  execution,  and  for  all  other  fervices  ecuVon&c. 
not  herein  enumerated,  fuch  fees  or  compenfa- 
tion  as  are  allov/ed  in  the  fupreme  court  of 
the  ftate  where  the  fervices  fliall  be  rendered  : 
To  the  clerk  of  the  fupreme  court  of  the  Uni-  Jj^j.^^^^ 
ted  States,  ten  dollars  per  day  for  his  attendance 
in  court,  and  for  his  other  fervices  in  dif- 
charging  the  duties  of  his  office,  double  the 
fees  of  the  clerk  of  the  fupreme  court  of  that 
ftate  in  which  the  fupreme  court  of  the  Uni- 
ted States  ftiall  be  holden.  To  the  clerk  of  the 
diftricl  and  circuit  courts  fuch  fees  in  each 
ftate  refpeclively  as  are  allowed  in  the  fu- 
preme courts  of  the  fame  ;  and  five  dollars 
per  day  fcr  his  attendance  on  any  circuit  or 
diftrift  court,  and  at  the  rate  of  ten  cents  per 
mile  for  his  expenfes  and  time  in  travelling  from 
the  place  of  his  abode  to  either  of  the  faid 
courts.  And  in  cafe  any  clerk  of  a  court  of 
the  United  States  fliall  in  difcharging  the  duties 
of  his  office  perform  any  kind  of  fervice  which 
is  not  performed  by  the  clerks  of  the  courts  of 
the  ftate,  and  for  which  the  laws  of  the  ftate 
make  no  allowance,  the  court  in  which  fuch 
fervice  fiiall  be  rendered  may  allow  a  reafon- 
able  compenfation  therefor.  To  each  grand  Jurors. 
and  petit  juror  fifty  cents  per  day  for  attending 
in  court,  and  for  travelling  at  the  rate  of  five 
cents-per  every  mile  from  their  refpeclive  places 
of  abode  to  the  place  where  the  court  is  held. 


(      H2      ; 

WltnclTts.  ^*i^d  the  like  allov/ance  for  returning :  To  wit- 
nelTes  fummoned  in  any  of  the  courts  of  the 
United  States  the  fame  compenfations  in  each 
flate  refpeftively  as  are  allowed  in  the  fupreme 

Attoinies.  courts  of  the  fame  :  To  the  attorney  of  the 
United  States  for  the  diflrift,  fiich  fees  in  each 
ftate  refpeftively  as  are  allowed  in  the  fupreme 
courts  of  the  fame,  and  alfo  the  like  compen- 
fation  for  travelling  as  is  above  allowed  to  ths 
clerk  of  the  diilrid  and  circuit  courts. 

Ma.fhai  to      Sec.  4.  And  be  it  further  enabled.  That  the 
have  the     marfftal  fnall  have  the  cuilody  of  all  velTels  and 
^"Jj-^f'^j.."^  goods  feized  by  any  officer  of  the  revenue,  and 
ed,  aiiQ  i.e  ^1^11  be  aliowcd  fuch  compenfation  therefor  as 
paicicertain  []^q  court  may  judge  reafonable  :  And  there  fhall 
fS&c'^and  t>e  paid  to  the  marfcal  the  amount  of  the  expenfe 
receive  and  for  fucl,  candles,  and  other  reafonable  contin- 
pay  the  tees        j,jgg  ^^^^  ^       accruc  in  holdiooj  the  courts 
wiihm  his  diitrict,  and  providing  the  books 
neceffary  to  record  the  proceedings  thereof: 
and  mch    amount,  as  alfo    the  compenfations 
aforefaid   to  the  grand  and  petit  jurors,-— To 
the  Vv'itnefies  fummoned  on  the  part  of  the  Uni- 
ted States,  to  the  clerk  of  the  fupreme  court 
for  his  attendance,- — to  the  clerks  of  the  dillridl 
and  circuit  courts  for  their  travelling  and  at- 
tendance,— to  the  attorney  of  the  diltridt  for 
travelling  to  court— to  the  marlhal  for  his  at- 
tendance at  court  ;    for  fummoning  grand  and 
petit  jurors  and  witneiles  in  behalf  of  any  prifon- 
er  to  be  tried  for  a  capital  offence  ;  for  the 
maintenance  of  prifoners  confined  in  goal  for 
any  criminal  offence,  and  for  the  commitment 
or  difcharge  of  fuch  prifoner, — -and  alfo  the 
legal  fees  of  the  clerk,  attorney  and  marflial,  in 
criminal  profecutions,  fliall  be  included  in  the 
account  of  the  marihal  ;  and  the  fame  having 
been  examined  and  certified  by  the  court  or  one 
of  the  judges  of  it  in  which  the  fervicefiiall  have 


(       M3       ) 

been  rendered,  fliall  bepalTed  in  the  ufual  man- 
ner at  and  the  amount  thereof  paid  out  of  the 
trcafury  of  the  United  States,  to  the  marflial, 
and  by  him  fhall  be  paid  over  to  the  perfons 
entitled  to  the  fame,  and  the  marlhal  ftall  be 
aHowed  two  and  an  half  per  cent  on  the  amount  iiis  a'low- 
by  him  fo  paid  over  to  be  charged  in  his  future  ^""  ihere- 

^.  for. 

account. 

Sec.  ^.  j^nd  be  it  furl  ber  enacIed^Th^it  in  eve-  -^^^^^^  fo^ 
ry  profecution  for  any  fine  or  forfeiture  incur-  pavmentof 
red  under  any  ftatutes  of  the  United   States,  '°"b'"7J" 
if  judgment  is  rendered  againfc  the  defendant  fecutions 
he  fhall  be  fubject    to  the  payment   of  col'cs —  forfines&c. 
And  on  every  convidtion  for  any  other  offence 
not  capital  the  court  may  in   their  difcretion 
award  that  the  defendant  Tnall  pay  the  cofls  of 
profecution — And  if  any  informer  or  plaintiff 
on  a  penal  flatute  to  whofe  benelit  the  penal- 
ty or  any  part  thereof  if  recovered  is  directed 
by  law  to  accrue  fiiall  difcontinue   his    fuit  or 
profecution  or  fhall  be  nonfuit    in  the  fame,  or 
if  upon  trial  averdid  fliall  pafs  for  the  defen- 
dant the  court  fliall  award  to    the  defendant 
his  cofts,  unlefs  fuch  informer  or   plaintiff  be 
an  ofl^cer  of  the  United  States  fpecially  autho- 
rized to  commence  fuch  profecution,  and  the 
court  before  whom  the  adion  or  information 
fhall  be  tried,  fiiall   at  the  trial  in  open   court, 
certify  upon  record,  that  there  was  reafonable 
caufe  for  commencing  the  fame,  in  v^'hich  cafe 
no  cofts  fhall  be  adjudged  to  the  defendant. 

Sec.  6.  A?id  he  it  further  enacted^  That  the  Fees  herein 
fees  and  compenfations  to  the  feveral  offcers  ^^o^  to  be 
and  perfons   herein  before  mentioned,  other  '■^^°^^''^'^- 
than  thol'e  which  are  above  directed  to  be  paid 
out  of  the  treafury  of  the  United  States,  fliall 
be  recovered  in  like  manner  as  the  fees  of  the 
officers  of  the  ilates  refpedively  for  like  fer- 
vices  are  recovered. 


(        144       ) 

Penalty  on  Scc.  7.  And  be  it  further  enaflcd.  That  If  any 
demanding  officer  herein  before  mentioned,  or  his  deputy, 
fe"s!^  ^  i^^^'l^  L)y  re^foi^  or  colour  of  his  office  wilfully 
and  corruptly  demand  and  receive  any  greater 
fees  than  thole  allowed  by  this  a6l,  he  fliall  on 
conviction  thereof  in  any  court  of  the  United 
States,  forfeit  and  pay  a  fine  not  exceeding  five 
hundred  dollars,  or  be  imprifoned  not  exceed- 
ing fix  months,  at  the  discretion  of  the  court 
before  whom  the  conviction  Ihall  be'. 

CertainaBs  Sec.  8.  And  be  it  further  enaded.  That  the  act 
repealed,  paffed  at  the  laft  feffion  of  Congrefs,  entitled, 
"  An  ad  to  continue  in  force  for  a  hmited  time, 
an  aft  paffed  at  the  firfl  feffion  of  Congrefs,  en- 
titled, "An  a£t  to  regulate  proceflTes  in  the  courts 
of  the  United  States  ;"  and  alfo  another  acl 
palTed  at  the  laft  feffion  of  Congrefs  entitled, 
"An  aft  providing  compenfations  for  the  officers 
of  the  judicial  courts  of  the  United  States  and 
for  jurors  and  witneffes  and  for  other  purpofes," 
be,  and  the  fame  are  hereby  repealed. 

Clerk  of  Sec.  9.  And  be  it  further  enaded.  That  it  ffiall 
fupreme,to  ^g  ^\^q  ^lyty  of  the  clerk  of  the  fupreme  court  of 
derk^'of''  the  United  States,  forthwith  to  tranfmit  to  the 
circuit  clerks  of  the  feveral  circuit  courts  the  form  of 
courts  the     ^j.jj.  ^c  ^j-j-q^-   j-q  be  approved  by  any  two  of 

form  of  a      ,         ,      ,  _   %  _  ^^^  J  t    •      n     11 

writ  of  er-  the  judgcs  oi  the  lupreme  court,  and  it  Ihall 
^°^'  be  lawful  for  the  clerks  of  the  faid  circuit  courts 

to  iffue  writs  of  error  agreeably  to  fuch  forms, 
as  nearly  as  the  cafe  may  admit,  under  the  feal 
of  the  faid  circuit  courts,  returnable  to  the  fu- 
preme court,  in  the  fame  manner  as  the  clerk 
of  the  fupreme  court  may  iffiie  fuch  writs,  in 
purfuance  of  the  aft,  intitled  "  An  aft  to  efta- 
bUffi  the  judicial  courts  of  the  United  States." 

When  Sec.  I  o.  Ajid  be  it  further  enaded.  That  it 

clerks  may  ^^||  ^^^  ^      ]^g  lawful  fov  the  clcrks  of  the 

takereccc-     ,.n    .,-,  ,    -.  .  •        1  1  r 

nizances  de  diftnft  aud  circuit  couits,  ui  thc  ablence  or  m 

bms  ejje  ; 


(     us     ) 

cafe  of  the  dlfabillty  of  the  judges,  to  take  re- 
cognizances of  fpecial  bail,  de  bene  efe^  in  any 
aftion  depending  in  either  of  the  faid  courts, 
and  alfo  the  affidavits  of  all  furveyors  relative  and  af?:da- 
to  their  reports,  a'd  to  adminifter  oaths  to  all  ^itsof  far- 
perfons  identifying  papers  found  on  board  of  ^'^'''^"'  '"^' 
veflels  or  elfewhere,  to  be  ufed  on  trials  in  ad- 
miralty caufes. 

Sec.  1 1.  And  be  if  further  cnaHed,  That  in  where jud- 
all  fuits  and  anions  in  any  diflricl  court  cf  the  f^^^r^^  H^. 
United  vStates,  invvhich  it  fhall  appear  that  the  a  party, 
judge  offuch  court  it-,  anyways,  concerned  in 
intereft,  or  has 'been  of  counfel  for  either  party, 
it  fl-.all  be  the  duty  of  fuch  judge  on  application 
of  either  party,  to  caufe  the  fad  to  be  entered  their  duty 
on  the  minutes  of  the  court,  and  alfo  to  order  infuchcaf* 
an  authenticated  copy  thereof,  with  all  the  pro- 
ceedings in  fuch  fuit  or  action,   to  be  forthwith 
certified  to  the  next  circuit  court  of  the  dilirift 
which  circuit  court  (hall,  thereupon, .take  cog- 
nizance thereof,  in  the  like  manner,  as  if  it  had 
been  originally  commenced  in  that  court,    and 
fhall  proceed  to  hear  and  determine  the  fame 
accordingly. 

Sec.  12.  Ajid  be  it  further  enaclcd.   That  all  Records  of 
the  records  and  proceedings  of  the  court  of  ap-  ^°^" J' "'g" J^ 
peals  heretofore  appointed,  previous  to  the  adop-  depoHted 
tion  of  the  prefent  conflitution,  (half  be  depo- ^^^^^J^  "^^^^ 
fited  in  the  ofiice  of  the  clerk  of  the  fupreme  court. 
court  of  the  United  States,  who  is  hereby  au- 
thorized and  directed  to  give  topics  of  all  fuch 
records  and  proceedings,  to  any  perfon  requir- 
ing and  paying  for  the  fame,  in  like  manner, 
as  copies  of  the  records  and  other  proceedings 
of  the  laid  court  are  by  law  directed  to  be  given  : 


(       146       ) 

v/hich  copies  fhall  have  lik&  faith  and  credit,  as 
all  other  proceedings  of  the  faid  court. 

JONATHAN  TRVMEVLL,  speaker  oftheHoufe 
of  Reprejentatives. 

RICHARD  HENRY  LEE,  Prefident  pro  tempore 
of  the  Senate. 

Approved,  May  eighth  1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States, 


CHAPTER     XXXVIL 

An    ACT   making  Alterations  in  the    Treafury    and  War 
Departments. 

Sec.    I.     13  E    it   enabled  by    ihs  Senate  and 
^^  Koiife    of   Reprefentati-ves   of  the 
ant  in'the   United  States  of  Jmerica,   in  Congrefs  ajfembled, 
war    de-  That  there  be  an  Accountant  to  the  department 

partment,  - 


Account - 


his  duty. 


of  war,  who  fhall  be  charged  with  the  fettle- 
ment  of  all  accounts  relative  to  the  pay  of  the 
army,  the  fubfifience  of  officers,  bounties  to 
foldiers,  the  expenfes  of  the  recruiting  fervice, 
the  incidental  and  contingent  expenfes  of  the 
department  ;  and  who  Ihall  report  from  time 
to  time,  all  fuch  fettlements  as  ihall  have  been 
made  by  him,  for  the  infpeftion  and  revifion  of 
the  accounting  officers  of  the  treafury  ;  and  the 
faid  accountant  fhall  alfo  be  charged  with  the 
fettlement  of  all  claims  for  perfonal  fervice  au- 
thorized by  the  ad  of  this  Congrefs  of  the  twen- 
ty feventh  of  March  laft,  and  of  all  military 
claims  lodged  in  the  late  office  of  the  paymafter 
general  and  commiffioner  of  army  accounts, 
which  are  not  foreclofed  by  the  ads  of  limita- 
tion of  the  late  Congrefs,  and  he  fliall  report 
from  time  to  time,  all  fuch  fettlements  as  have 
been  made  by  him,  for  the  infpection  and  revi- 
fion of  the  Comptroller  of  the  Treafury.      The 


(       147       ) 

compenfation  of  the  faid  accountant  fhall  be  a 
yearly  falary  of  one  thoufand  two  hundred  dol-  salary. 
lars. 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enaded.  That  the  Duty  of  the 
Treafurer  of  the  United  States  ihall  difburfe  all  ^.^^^^^s. 
fuch  monies  as  fhall  have  been  previouily  or-  herein.  ' 
dered  for  the  ufe  of  the  department  of  war  by 
warrants   from  the  treafury ;  which  difburfe- 
ments  Ihall  be  made  purfuant  to  warrants  from 
the  Secretary  at  War,  counterfigned  by  the  ac- 
countant. 

Sec.  3.  Ayid  he  it  further  ena^cd^  That  there  paymafter 
be  a  Paymafler  to  refide  near  the  head  quarters  °J  ''""j^j^ 
of  the  troops  of  the  United  States.  That  it  duty. ' 
fliall  be  the  duty  of  the  faid  paymafler,  to  re- 
ceive from  the  treafurer  all  the  monies  which 
fliall  be  entrufled  to  him  for  the  purpofe  of  pay- 
ing the  pay,  the  arrears  of  pay,  fubfiftence  or 
forage,  due  to  the  troops  of  the  United  States. 
That  he  fliall  receive  the  pay  abflrads  of  the  pay- 
niafters  of  the  feveral  regiments  or  corps,  and 
compare  the  fame  with  the  returns  or  mufter 
rolls  which  fhall  accompany  the  faid  pay  ab- 
flrafts.  That  he  fliall  certify  accurately  to  the 
commanding  officer,  the  funis  due  to  the  refpec- 
tive  corps,  which  fliall  have  been  examined  as 
aforefaid,  who  fhall  thereon  iffue  his  warrant 
on  the  faid  deputy  paymafler,  for  the  payment 
accordingly.  That  copies  of  all  reports  to  the 
commanding  officer,  and  the  warrants  thereon, 
fhall  be  duly  tranfmitted  to  the  office  of  the  ac- 
countant of  the  war  department,  in  order  to  be 
there  examined  and  finally  adjufted  at  the  trea- 
fury. That  the  faid  paymafler  fhall  give  bond  To  give 
in  the  fum  of  twenty  thoufand  dollars,  with  two  ^°"'^* 
fufEcient  fureties,for  the  faithful  difcharge  of  his 
duty,  and  he  fliall  take  an  oath  faithfully  to  ex- 
ecute the  duties  of  his  office.    That  the  compen- 


(       148       ) 

His  felary.  fatlon  to  the  faid  paymafler  fliall  be  fixty  dollars 
monthly,  with  the  fame  rations  and  forage  as  a 
major. 
Affignment  Sec.  4.  And  be  it  further  enabled.  That  no 
t\il\t  affignn^ent  of  pay  made  after  the  iirfl:  day  of 
ter  .11  June  June  next,  by  a  non-commiffioned  officer  or  pri- 
rext   not   y^te,  fliall  be  valid. 

valid.  ' 

Centrals  Scc.  5.  And  be  it  further  enacled.  That  all 
forfuppiy-  puj-chafes  and  contrads  for  fupplying  the  army 
Srm^I  with  provifions,  clothing,  fupphes  in  the  quar- 
«nder  the  |-ej..j^a(]-ei-s  department,  military  (lores,  Indian 
oftheTrJa  goods,  and  all  other  fupplies  or  articles  for  the 
i"ry-  ufe  of  the  department  of  war,  be  made  by  or 
under  the  diredion  of  the  Treafury  department. 

To  dhedi       Sec.  6.  And  be  it  further  enabled.  That  the  Se- 

the  coiiec-  cretary  of  the  Treafury  fiiall  dired  the  fuperin- 

dutie3,'&c.  tendance  of  the  coikclion  of  the  duties  on  im- 

poll  and  tonnage  as  be  ihall  judge  bell.     That 

AfPifiant     the  prefent  office  of  Amflant  to  the  Secretary 

SoiiS &  of  the  Treafury,  be  aboliihed,  and  that  inflead 

Commffion-  thereof  there  be  an  officer  in  the  department 

kevenue^     of  the  Trcafury,  to  be  denonunated  Commif- 

iubrututed.  fioncr  of   the  Revenue,  v/ho  fhall  be  charged 

with  fuperintending,  under  the  diredion  of  the 

|ai3    duty,  j^g^^  Qf  {.{-jg  department,  the  colleclion  of  the 

other  revenues  of  the  United  States  and  fliall 

execute  fuch  other  fervices,  being  conformable 

to  the  conftitution  of  the  department,  as  fliall 

be  directed  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Treafury. 

g^j^^ ,       That  the  compenfation  of  the  faid  Commiffioner 

'     '       fliall  be  a  falary  of  one  thoufand  nine  hundred 

dollars  per  annum. 

And  pow-  Sec.  7.  And  be  it  further  enacled^TlvAt  in  eve- 
ers,  with  ry  cafe  of  an  account  or  claim  not  finally  adjud- 
oAndVt-  ^<^^3  upon  which  the  prefent  Comptroller  of  the 
torney  Ge-  Trcafury,  as  Auditor,  may  have  decided,  it  Ihall 
^"'*^'       be  the  duty  gf  the  Commiffioner  of  the  Revc- 


(       H9       ) 

nue,  and  of  the  Auditor  of  the  Treafuiiy,  finally 
to  adjufl;  the  fame,  and  in  .cafe  of  difagreemcnt 
between  the  faid  Commiffioner  and  Auditor,  the 
decifion  of  the  Attorney  General  (hall  be  final. 

Sec.  8.  And  be  it  further  cnaclcd.  That  in  cafe  \^'^'^\':i 
'ence  from  the  feat  of  govern-  dem  !m'' 


of  the  death,  abfence  from  the  feat  oi  govern-  dent 
jnent  or  ficknefs  of  the  Secretary  of  State,  Se- <^eath,  lc. 
cretary  of  the  Treafury  or  of  ih^  Secretary  of  fpjjjf^^^f^ 
the  War  department,  or  of  any  officer  of  either  p^rtments. 
of  the  faid  departments  whofe  appointment  is 
not  in  the  head  thereof,  whereby  they  cannot 
perform  the  duties  of  their  faid  refpedive  offi- 
ces, it  Ihail  be  lawful  for  the  Prefident  of  the 
United  States,  in  cafe  he  fliall  think  it  neceffiuy, 
to  authorize  any  perfon  or  perfonc  at  his  difcre- 
tion  to  perform  the  duties  of  the  faid  refpeQive 
offices  until  a  fuccelfor  be  appointed,  or  until 
fuch  abfence  or  inability  by  ficknefs  ffiall  ceafe. 

Sec.  9.  Jnd  be  it  further  cnaSted^  That  the  Treafuiy 
forms  of  keeping  and  rendering  all  public    ac-  ^oprefcribe 
counts  v/hatfoever,  faall  be  prefcribed  by  the  '"orms  fer 
department  of  the  Treafury.  J^'^PJ^f  =^^^' 

Sec.  I  o.  And  be  it  further  ena^ed.  That  in  Yearly  ai- 
addition  to  the  compenfations  allowed  to  the  'cen^m  S- 
Comptroller,  Auditor,  Treafurer,  and  Regifter  ftccrsofthc 
of  the  Treafury,  by  the  "  adl  for  eftabliffiin";  the  \\'^^^''' " 

ri-ri-  re  1  ^  Attorney 

lalaries  or  the  executive  olhcers  or  government.  General. 
their  affidants  and  clerksj"  and  to  the  Attorney 
General  by  the  "  act  for  allowing  certain  com- 
penfations to  thejudgesof  the  fupreme  and  other 
courts,  and  to  the  Attorney  General  of  the 
United  States,"  the  faid  officers  refpcdively  fliall 
be  allowed  the  following  yearly  fums,  viz.  the 
Comptroller  four  hundred  dollars  ;  the  Auditor 
four  hundred  dollars  ;  the  Treafurer  four  hun- 
dred dollars  ;  the  Regifter  five  hundred  dollars  j 
the  Attorney  General  four  hundred  dollars. 


(       150      ) 

Secretary  Scc.  i^.  And  be  it  further  enacied.  That  the 
«;•  the  Secretary  of  the  Treafury  be  authorized  to  have 
aUo-!veZ  two  prhicipal  clerks,  each  of  whom  to  have  a 
2  principal  falary  of  eight  hundred  dollars  per  annum  ;  and 
clerks.  ^^^^  ^^^  falary  of  the  chief  clerk  of  the  depart- 
ment of  war,  be  at  the  rate  of  eight  himdred 
dollars  per  year. 

Rcftrifticn      Scc.  1 2.  And  he  it  further  enaded.  That  the 
aflo'car'  ^eftriftion  on  the  clerks  of  the  department  of 
vrmg  on    the  treafury  fo  far  as  refpefts  the  carrying  on  of 
trade  aboi-  ^^^  trade  or  bufmefs,  other  than  in  the  funds, 
that  as  to  or  dcbts  of  the  United  States  or  of  any  ftate, 
^^f  1*1"/^  or  in  any  kind  of  public  property,  be  aboHflied, 
III  revenue  ^nd  that  fuch  rcftridion,  fo  far  as  refpecls  the 
officer£,&c.  funds  or  debts  of  the  United  States,  or  of  any 
ftate,  or  any  public  property  of  either,  be  ex- 
tended to  the  commilTioner  of  the  revenue,  to 
the  feveral  commiffioners  of  loans,  and  to  all 
perfons  efnployed  in  their  refpedlive  offices,  and 
to  all  officers  of  the  United   States  concerned 
in  the  colle6tion  or  difburfement   of  the  reve^ 
nues  thereof,  under  the  penalties  prefcribed  in 
the  eighth  feftion  of  the  ad,  intitled  "  An  ad 
to  eftablifh  the  treafury  department'*  and  the 
©"flankhig  provifions  relative  to  the  officers  in  the  treafury 
extended  to  department,  contained  in  the  "  Ad  to  eftabhfh 
onToffhe  ^^'^^  Po^  office  and  poft  roads,"  fhall  be  and  here- 
Revenue.    by  are  extended  and  applied  to  the  commiffioner 
of  the  revenue. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the  Houfe 
of  Reprejentatives, 

RICHARD  HENRY  LEE,  Prejident  pro  tempore 

of  the  Senate. 
ArfROVED,   May  eighth,   1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prejident  of  ike  United  States, 


Term  fof 
receivinc 


(  I^I  ) 

CHAPTER     XXXVIII. 

An  ACT  f II plementary  to' the  A B  making  Provifion  for  the 
Debt  of  the  United  States. 

Sec.   i.TJ  E  it  enabled  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe 
J3  of  Reprefentati'ves  of  the  United  States 
of  America,  in  Congrcfs  ajfemhlcd.  That  the  term 
for  receiving  on  loan  that  part  of  the  domeftic  on  loan  the 
debt  of  the  United  States,  which  hath  not  been  ""^^""^^Ir^ 
fubfcribed  purfuant  to  the  terms  propofed  in  the  debt  of  u. 
act,  intituled,   "  An  ad:  making  provifion  for  ^^^^^^  "■ 
the  debt  of  the  United  States,"  Ihall  be,  and  it 
is  hereby  extended,  on  the  fame  terms,  as  in 
and  by  the  faid  a61;  is  provided,  to  the  firft  day 
of  March  next ;  and  books,  for  receiving  fuch  Subfcripti- 
farther  fubfcriptions,  fhall  be  opened  at  the  trea-  ""j^^^^J'^^*. 
fury  of  the  United  States,  and  by  the  comniif-  ed. '  °^^" 
fioners  of  loans,  in  each  of  the  laid  ftates,  on 
the  firft  dayof  June  next,  which  Hiall  continue 
open  until  the  faid  fir  ft  day  of  March  next  in- 
clufively  ;  for  which  purpofe,  the  faid  commif- 
fioners,  refpeclively,  are  hereby  invefted  with 
the  like  powers,  and  required  to  perform  the 
like  duties,  as  in  and  by  the  faid  aci  is  directed. 

Sec.  2.  And  he  it  further  enaBed,  That  fuch  fntereft  to 
of  the  creditors  of  the  United  Stales,  as  have  ""^^^^J^^f 
not  fubfcribed  and  fhall  not  fubfcribe  to  the  faid  creditor.^, 
loan,  {hall  -neverthelefs  receive  a  rate  per  cen- 
tum on  the  amount  of  fo  much  of  their  re- 
fpeclive  demands,  as  well  for  intereft  as  princi- 
pal, as,  on  or  before  the  firft  day  of  March,  fliall 
be  regiftered,  conformably  to   the   direclions 
of  the  faid  act,  as  fliall  be  equal  to  the  intereft 
payable  to  the  fubfcribing  creditors,  which  fliall 
be  payable  at  the  fame  times  and  places,  and 
by  the  fame  perfons,   as  in  and  by  the  faid  ail 
is  directed. 

Sec-.  3.  And  be  it  further  enabled ^  That  the  Term  f,>r 
term  for  receiving  upon  loan  that  part  of  the  "--'^'"s 


(       15^      ) 

i^ate  debts  debts  of  the  refpe<aive  flates,  Avhicli  hath  not 
extended—  been  fubfcribcd  purfuant  to  the  terms  propofed 
in  the  ad  aforelaid,  fhall  be,  and  it  is  hereby 
enlarged  on  the  fame  term.s,    as   in  and  by  the 
faid  aa  is  provided,  until  the  firft  day  of  March 
one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and  ninety  three 
inclufively  ;  for  which  purpofe,  books  fiiall  be 
wfs'Ke  opened  at  the  treafury  of  the  United  States, 
«pened.      and  by  the  commiffioners  of  loans  in  each  of  the 
faid  ftates,  on  the  firil  day  of  June  next,  which 
fhall  continue  open  until  the  hril  day  of  March, 
one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and  nineiy  three 
inclufively;  for  which  purpofes  the  f^iid  conv 
miffioners  are  hereby  invefhcd  with  the   like 
powers,  and  required  to  perform  the  like  duties, 
as,  in  and  by  the  faid  aft,  is  direOed. 
Cevtaui  Sec.  4.    Provided  always,  and  be  it  further 

certificates  cna8.cd.  That  the  commifiioner  of  loans  for 
iwrvSiu-  North-Carolina  fliall  not  be  allowed  to  receive 
^i^d.  any  certificate  ifiued  by  Patrick  Travers,   com- 

miffioner  of  Cumberland  county,  or  by  the  com- 
miffioners  of  array  accounts  at  Warrenton. 
Debtducto  Sec.  5.  And  whereas  the  United  States  are 
"  ^?-  indebted  to  certain  foreign  officers,  on  account 
rr'^eii-  of  pay  and  fervices  during  the  late  war,  the  in- 
^«  tereft  whereof,  purfuant  to  the  certificates  grant- 
j-aif  '°  ^"  cd  to  the  faid  officers  by  virtue  of  a  refohition 
of  the  United  States  in  Congrefs  affembled,  is 
payable  at  the  houfe  of  Grand, 

banker,  at  Paris,  and  it  is  expedient  to  difcharge 
the  fame  ;  Be  it  therefore  eiiaCled,  That  the  Pre- 
fident  of  the  United  States  be,  and  he  hereby 
is  authorized  to  caufe  to  be  difcharged  the  prin- 
ci-oal  and  interefi:  of  the  feid  debt,  out  of  any 
of  the  monies,  which  have  been  or  ffiall  be  ob- 
tallied  on  loan,  in  virtue  of  the  aft  aforelaid, 
imd  which  fhall  not  be  neceilary  ultimately  to 
fulfil  the  purpofes  for  which  the  faid  monies  are, 
in  and  by  the  laid  ad",  authorised  to  be  bor- 
rowed. 


certain 

,..    offi- 
cers, 
dent 


(      153      ) 

Sec.  6.  And  be  it  further  ena^ed.  That    the  Certaia 
Prefident  ofthe  Senate,  the  Chief  Ju[i:ice,  the  F^'.[°^^3P* 
Secretary  of  State,  the  Secretary  ofthe  Treafu-  Commiffi- 
ry,  and  the  Attorney  General,  for  the  time  be-  oners   to 
ing,  fiiall  be  commiiTioners,  who,  or  any  three  J^^^'J^^^Jj^g 
of  whom,  are  hereby  authorized,  with  the  ap-  U.S.  &.c. 
probation  of  the  Prefident  of  the  United  States, 
to  purchafe  the  debt  of  the  United  States,  at  its 
market  price,  if  not  exceeding  the  par  or  true 
value  thereof  ;  for  which  purchafe  the  intereft 
on  fo  much  of  the  public  debt,  as  has  already 
been,  or  may  hereafter  be  purchafed  for  the 
United  States,  or  as  (hall  be  paid  into  the  trea- 
fury,  and  fo  much  of  the  monies  appropriated 
for  the  payment  of  the  intereft  on  the  foreign 
and  domeltic  debt,  as  ihall  exceed  what  may  be 
fufficient  for  the  payment  of  fuch  intereft  to  the 
creditors  of  the  United  States,  fliall  be  and  are 
hereby  appropriated.     And  it  fliall  be  the  duty 
ofthe  faid  commiffioners  to  render  to  the  legif- 
lature,  within  two  months  after  the  commence- 
ment of  the  firft  ftfiion  thereof  in  every   year, 
a  full  and  precife  account  of  all  fuch  purchafes 
made,  and  public  debt   redeemed,    in  purfu- 
ance  of  this  acl. 

Sec.  7.  And  whereas  it  is  expedient  to  eda-  Out  of  a 
blifhafund  for  the  gradual  reduaion  of  the  ^"f- ^^'^J" 

.  o  ed  tor  the 

puniic  debt  ;     Be  it  further  enacted.  That  the  puipofe 
intereft  on  fo  much  of  the  debt  of  the  United 
States,  as  has  been  or  ftiall  be  purchafed  or  re- 
deemed for  or  by  the  United  States,  or  as  fliall 
be  paid  into  the  treafury  thereof  in  fatisfaftioii 
of  any  debt  or  demand,  and  the  furplus  of  any 
fum  or    fums  appropriated  for  the  payment   of 
the  intereft  upon  the  faid  debt,  which  Ihall  re- 
main after  paying   fuch    intereft,   Ihall  be,  and 
hereby  are  appropriated  and  pledged  firrnly  and 
inviolably  for  and  to  the  purchafe  and  redemp-  how  to  b« 
Lion  of  the  laid  debt,  to  be  applied   under  the  "P"''^''' 
U 


(       "54       ) 

direftlon  of  the  Prefident  of  the  Senate,  the 
Chief  Judice,  the  Secretary  of  State,  the  Secre- 
tary of  the  Treafury  and  the  Attorney  General 
for  the  time  being,  or  any  three  of  them,  with 
the  approbation  of  the  Prefident  of  the  United 
States,  for  the  time  being,  in  manner  following, 
that  is  to  fay  :  Firft ,  to  the  purchafe  of  the  feve- 
ral  fpecies  of  ftock  conflituting  the  debt  of  the 
United  States,  at  their  refpedive  market  prices, 
not  exceeding  the  par  or  true  value  thereof,  and, 
as  nearly  as  may  be,  in  equal  proportions,  until 
the  annual  amount  of  the  faid  funds,  together 
with  any  other  provifions  which  may  be  made  by 
law,fhall  be  equal  to  two  per  centum  of  the  whole 
amount  of  the  outllanding  funded  (lock  bearing 
a  prefent  intereft  of  fix  per  centum :  Thence- 
forth, Secondly,  to  the  redemption  of  the  faid 
'  lafl  mentioned  ftock,  according  to  the  right  for 
that  purpofe  referved  to  the  United  States,  until 
the  whole  amount  thereof  fliali  have  been  re- 
deemed :  And  Laftly,  after  fuch  redemption,  to 
the  purchafe,  at  its  market  price,  of  any  other 
ftock  confiuing  of  the  debt  of  the  United  States, 
which  may  then  remain  unredeemed  :  and  fuch 
purchafe,  as  far  as  the  fund  fliall  at  any  time 
extend,  fhall  be  made  within  thirty  days  next 
after  each  day,  on  which  a  quarterly  payment 
of  intereft  on  the  debt  of  the  United  States, 
Ihall  become  due,  and  fliall  be  made  by  a  known 
agent,  to  be  named  by  the  faid  commiflioners. 
Piuchafes  Sec.  8.  And  be  it  further  enadcd.  That  all 
^-^l\T  ^'^  ^ulure  purchafes  of  public  debt  on  account  of 
the  United  States,  fnall  be  made  at  the  loweft 
price,  at  which  the  fame  can  be  obtained  by 
open  purchafe,  or  by  receiving  fealed  propo- 
fals,  to  be  opened  in  the  prefence  of  the  com- 
mifiloners,  or  perfons  authorized  by  them  to 
make  purchafes,  and  the  perfons  making  fuch 
propofals. 


ill  a  tie. 


(      ^55      ) 

Sec.  9.  And  be  it  further  enaSfed,  That  quar-  Quarterly 
ter  yearlv  accounts  of  the  application  of  the  faid  accounts  of 

^      ^    r.    •',•,  ,  1  1    <•        r      1  7         application 

fund  fhali  be  rendered  tor  fettlement,  as  other  otiaidfunJ 
public  accounts,  accompanied  with  returns  oftobcrend- 
the  fums  of  the  faid  debt,  which  ihall  have  been  "''^'  ^'• 
from  time  to  time  purchafed  or  redeemed;  and 
full  and  exa6l  report  of  the  proceedings  of  the 
faid  commiflioners,  including  a  ftatement  of  the 
difburfements,  which  (liall  have  been  made,  and 
of  the  fums  which  fhall  have  been  purchafed  or 
redeemed  under   their  direction,  and  fpecify- 
ing  dates,  prices,  parties,  and  places,  fhall  be 
laid  before  Congrefs,  within  the  firft  fourteen 
days  of  each  feffion  which  may  enfue  the  pre- 
fent,  during  the  execution  of  the  faid  truft. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  thz  Houfr 
of  Reprefcntatives. 

RICHARD  HENRY  LEE,   Prefident  pro  tempore 
of  the  Senate. 
Approved,  May  eighth   1792. 

G°:    WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States, 


CHAPTER     XXXIX. 

An  ACT  to  provide  for  a  Copper  Coinage. 

Sec.  I'T^E  it  cnaded   by  the  Senate  and  rloufe 

of  Reprefentatives  of  the  United  States  Direaorof 
of  America  in  Congrefs  affembled^  That  the  direc-  the  Mint  to 
tor  of  the  mint,  with  the  approbation  of  the  P""^'^^*"'-' 
Prefident  of  the  United  States,  be  authorized  \^i?^cSy^ 
to  contrad  for  and  purchafe  a  quantity  of  cop- 
per, not  exceeding  one  hundred  and  fifty  tons, 
and  that  the  faid  direftor,  as  foon  as  the  need- 
ful  preparations  fliall  be  made,  caufe  the  cop- 
per  by  him  purchafed  to  be  coined  at  the  mint 
into  cents  and  half  cents,  purfuant  to  "  the  ad 
eftabhfliing  a  mint,  and  regulating  the  coins  of 
the  United  States  ;"  and  that  theYaid  cents  and 
half  cents,  as  they  fliall  be  coined,  be  paid  into 


cd    into 
cents  &c. 


i       'S6       ) 

whence  to  the  tiTafury  of  the  United  States,  thence  to  iffue 
iflue.         into  circulation. 

Direaor         Scc,   2.  And  be  it  fwt/jer  enadeJ,  Thdit  zfttr 
whcn^ 'i'^    the  expiration  of  fix  calendar  months  from  the 
certainfum  time  whcn  there  fhall  have  been  paid  into  the 
has  be'fn    trcafury  by  the  faid  direftor,  in  cents  and  half 
tivi  Trea    ccnts,  a  fum  not  lefs  than  fifty  thoufand  dollars, 
fury.         which  time  fliall  forthwith  be  announced  by  the 
treafurer  in  at  lead  tv/o  gazettes  or  nev^s-papers, 
publiihed  at  the  feat  of  the  government  of  the 
United  States,  for  the  time  being,  no  copper 
coins  or  pieces  whatfoever,  except  the  faid  cents 
and  half  cents,  fhall  pafs  current  as  money,  or 
fliall  be  paid,  or  offered  to  be  paid  or  received 
in  payment  for  any  debt,  demand,  claim,  mat- 
ter or  thing  whatfoever  ;  and   all  copper  coins 
olS.'X'To  ^^  pieces,  except  the  faid  cents  and  half  cents, 
pais  oiher  which  fhall  be  paid  or  offered  to  be  paid  or  re- 
copp^i       ceived  in  payment    contrary  to    the    piohibi- 
tion  aiorelaid,    mail  be  lorreited,    and  every 
perfon  by  whom  any  of  them  fnall  have  been 
fo  paid  or  offered  to  be  paid  or  received  in  pay- 
ment,  fnall  alfo  forfeit  the  fum  of  ten  dollars, 
and  the  faid  forfeiture  and  penalty  fnall  and  may 
be  recovered  with  coffs  of  fuit  lor  the  benefit  of 
any   perfon  or  perfons  by  whom  information 
of  rhe  incurring  thereof  fhall  have  been  given. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  tJu  Hovfi 
of  Reprefentatives. 

RICHARD  HENRY   LEE,  Prefident  pro  tempore 
of  the  Senate. 

Approved,   May  eighth,   1792. 

G°:  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States. 


(       157      ) 
CHAPTER     XL. 

An  ACT  for  making  Covipenfations  to  the   Commijioncrs  of 
Loans  for  extraordinary  expenfcf. 

BE  /■/  enacled  by  the  Senate  and  Hou/e  of  Re- 
prefctitaiives  of  the  United  States  of  America,  Stationary, 
in  Congrefs  a/embled.  That  the  Commiflioners  of  ed' t'oCom- 
Loans  in  the  feveral  dates  fliall  be  allowed,  in  minioncrs 
the  fettlement  of  their  accounts,  fiich  funis  as  "^  L^'^"'- 
fhall  appear  to  have  been  neceffarily  expended 
by  them  in  the  purchafe  of  ftationary  for  the  ufe 
of  their  feveral  offices,  and  alfo  for  the  hire  of 
clerks  to  affift  in  executing  the  duties  of  their 
refpedive  offices,  from  the  firfl:  day  of  Odober 
laft,  until  the  firfi:  day  of  March  one  thoufand 
feven  hundred  and  ninety-three. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the  Houfr 
of  Reprefentatives. 

RICHARD  HENRY  LEE,  Pref  dent  pro  tempore 
of  the  Senate. 
Approved,   May  eighth,    3792. 

G°.  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States. 


CHAPTER     XLL 

An  ACT  making  certain  Appropriaticms  therein  fpccified. 

Sec.    1 .  1I>  E  //  enabled  by  the  Senate  and  Hotife 

^  of  Reprefentatives  of  the  United  States  .^Pp'^p^;,- 
of  /America,  in  Congrefs  affembled.  That  there  be  tions. 
granted  and  appropriated  the  follov/ing  fums 
for  the  following  purpofes,  to  wit  : — For -the 
difcharge  of  a  balance  to  the  cominiffioners  ap- 
pointed under  the  acl  of  Congrefs  of  the  fif- 
teenth of  March  one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and 
eighty  five,  two  thoufand  feven  hundred  and 
eighty  feven  dollars  and  eighty  eight  cents :  For 
additional  falary  to  the  firft  clerk  of  the  com- 
mifTioners  for  fettling  accounts  between  the  Uni- 
ted States  and  individual  ftates,  one  hundred 
and  eighty  feven  dollars  and  ninety  one  cents  ; 


tions 


(     158     ) 

Specific  For  defraying  the  expenfe  of  ftating  and  print- 
appropria.  j^g  certain  public  accounts,  purfuant  to  the  or- 
der of  the  Houfe  of  Reprefentatives  of  the  thir- 
tieth of  December  one  thoufand  feven  hun- 
dred and  ninety  one,  eight  hundred  dollars  ; 
For  difcharging  the  accounts  of  officers  of  the 
courts  of  the  United  States,  jurors  and  witnefles, 
in  aid  of  the  fund  heretofore  appropriated,  fe- 
venteen  thoufand  dollars  ;  For  making  good 
deficiencies  in  former  appropriations,  for  de- 
fraying the  expenfe  of  the  enumeration  of  the 
inhabitants  of  the  United  States,  four  thoufand 
fix  hundred  and  ninety  five  dollars,  and  fifty 
nine  cents  ;  For  difcharging  certain  accounts 
againlt  the  treafury  department,  to  the  end  of 
the  year  one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and  nine- 
ty one,  including  a  fum  of  fix  hundred  dollars, 
for  furniiliing  the  fupervifors  of  the  revenue 
with  fcrevi^Tpreffes,  feals,  and  other  articles,  one 
thoufand  nine  hundred  and  fifty  five  dollars, 
and  fixty  one  cents  ;  For  a  balance  due  to  lieu- 
tenant John  Freeman  of  the  late  Maryland  line, 
on  account  of  fubfiilence  for  the  years  one  thou- 
fand ft\en  hundred  and  eighty  two  and  one 
thoufand  feven  hundred  and  eighty  three,  forty 
one  dollars  and  feventy  five  cents ;  For  com- 
penfations  to  the  clerks  of  the  ading  commif- 
fioner  of  army  accounts,  and  contingencies  of 
his  office,  one  thoufand  three  hundred  and 
twenty  nine  dollars  and  fixteen  cents  ;  For  ad- 
ditional compenfations  to  the  doorkeepers  of 
the  Houfe  of  Reprefentatives,  purfuant  to  a  re- 
folution  of  the  Houfe,  of  the  twenty  fourth  of 
March  laft,  feven  hundred  dollars  ;  For  the 
difcharge  of  fuch  demands  againfi:  the  United 
States,  not  otherwife  provided  for,  as  fhall  have 
been  afcertained  and  admitted,  in  due  courfe  of 
fettlement  at  the  treafury,  and  which  are  of  a 
nature,  according  to   the  ufage  thereof,  to  re- 


(       159      ) 

quire  payment  in  fpccle,  fire  thoufand  dollars : 
All  which  faid  funis,  amounting  together,  to 
thirty  four  thoufand  four  hundred  and  ninety 
feven  dollars  and  ninety  cents,  fliall  and  may 
be  paid  out  of  the  funds  following,  any,  or  all 
of  them  ;  n.imely  ;  the  furplufes  which  may  re-  f^^'^s^^J'^f 
main  of  appropriations  heretofore  made,  after  able. 
fatisfying  the  purpofes  of  fuch  appropriations  ; 
monies  which  have  been  paid  into  the  treafury, 
in  confequence  of  balances  which  have  been 
found  due  from  individuals,  relating  to  tranf- 
aclions  prior  to  the  prefent  government  of  the 
United  States  ;  the  furplus,  not  heretofore  ap- 
propriated, of  the  duties  on  imports  and  ton- 
nage, which  accrued  to  the  end  of  the  year  one 
thoufand  feven  hundred  and  ninety  one. 

Sec.  2.  Andbeit further  enabled.  That  fo  much  Additional 
of  the  aforefaid  furplus  of  the  duties  on  imports  ^PP^P^^- 
and  tonnage,  which  accrued  to  the  end  of  the  expenceof 
year  one    thoufand  feven  hundred  and  ninety  -^^'"S  ^- 
one,  as  may  be  neceflary,  Ihall  be  and  is  here-  "o^mii^afj 
by  appropriated,  in  addition  to  the  provifion  eilabiirh- 
heretofore  made,  towards  defraying  the  expen-  '"^"'' 
fes,  which  Tnall  have  been  incurred  in  the  exe- 
cution of  the  acl:  for  raifmg  and  adding  another 
regiment  to    the  military  eftablifhment   of  the 
United  States,  and  for  making  farther  provifion 
for  the  protecuion  of  the  frontiers,  within  the 
limits  of  the  fum  of  three  hundred  and  twelve 
thoufand,  fix    hundred  and  eighty  iiiL  dollars, 
and   tv/enty  cents    thereby    authorized  ;    and 
towards  reimburfmg  any  fums,  which  may  have 
been  borrowed,  or  advances  of  money  which 
may  have  been  obtained  for  that  purpofe. 

Sec.  3.  And  be  it  further  cnadcd.  That  a  fum  ^or  inter- 
of  fifty  thoufand  dollars  in  addition  to  the  pro-  foJei/n^na- 
vifion-  heretofore  made  be   appropriated  to  de-  tions. 
fray  any  expenfe  which  may  be  incurred  in  re- 
lation to  the   intercourfe  between  the  United 


(        166        ) 

States  and   foreign  nations,  to  be  paid  out  of 
any  monies,  which  may  be  in  the  treafury,  not 
otherwife   appropriated,  and  to  be  applied  un- 
der the  direftion  of  the  Prefident  of  the  United 
Prefidcnt    States  who,  if  neceffkry,  is  authorized  to  bor- 
mayborrow  row,  on  the  Credit  of  the   United  States,  the 
50C00  o  s  ^^.  J  ^^^  ^£  ^^^y  thoufand  dollars  ;  an  account 
of  the  expenditure  whereof  as  foon  as  may  be, 
fhall  be  laid  before  Corigrefs. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  th€  Houfe. 
of  Reprefentatives. 

RICHARD  HENRY   hllY.,  Prefident  pro  tempore 
of  the  Senate, 

Approved,  May  eighth,   1792. 

G°.  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States, 


CHAPTER     XLIL 

An  ACT  refpeBing  the   Government  of  the    Territories  of 
the  United  States  North  Wefi  and  South  of  the  River  Ohio. 

Sec.  I.    "RE  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe 
-^^^^  ^j.  of  Reprefentatives  of  the  United  States 

N.  Weft-  of  America,  in  Congrefs  afjc?nb!ed.  That  the  laws 
e.ntenito  of  the  territory  north-well  of  the  river  Ohio, 
be  pubiifl^  that  have  been  or  hereafter  may  be  enacted  by 
cd,  diftri-  the    governor    and  judges    thereof,    fliall   be 
buted,  &c.  pj-ijjj-g J  under  the  diredion  of  the  fecretary  of 
ftate,    and  two   hundred    copies  thereof,    to- 
gether with  ten  fets   of  the  laws  of  the  Uni- 
ted States,  fliail  be  delivered  to  the  faid  gover- 
nor and  judges,  to  be  diftributed  among  the 
inhabitants  for  their  information,  and  that  a 
like  number  of  the  laws  of  the  United  States 
fliall  be  delivered  to  the  governor  and  judges' 
of  the  territory  fouth  weft  of  the  river-  Ohio. 
Power  oF       Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enaaed.  That  the 

Governoi  i    •      i  r-      t  •  1 

&  Judges   governor  and  judges    oi  the   territory   north 

hcieiu.       weft  of  the  river  Ohio  ihall  be,  and  hereby  arc 

authorized  to  repeal  their  laws  bv  thcin  made. 


(       i6i       ) 

whenfoever  the  fame  may  be  found  to  be  Im- 
proper. 

Sec.  3.  And  be  it  further  enabled.  Tint  the  Power    of 
official  duties  of  the  fccretaries  of  the  faid  ter-  nes.'^'^'^^'^" 
ritories  fliall  be'  under  the  control  of  fuch  laws, 
as  arc  or  may  be  in  force  in  the  faid  territories. 

Sec.  4.  And  be  it  further  enaSfed,  That  any  One  fu- 
one  of  the  fupreme  or  fuperior  iudges  of  the  P''^'"^ 
faid   territories,  in  the  aoience    or   the  other  "hold 
judges,  (hall  be  and  hereby  is  authorized  to  <^°"f^- 
hold  a  court. 

Sec.  5.  And  be  it  further  enacted.    Thai:  the  •'"•"is  by 
fecretary  of  ftate,  provide  proper  feals  for  the  vijed'.^'*^' 
feveral  and  refpettive  public  offices  in  the  faid 
territories. 

Sec.  6.  And  be  it  further  enaded^  That  the  li-  T;eir  li. 
mitation  ad,  pafTed  by  the  governor  and  judges  a"['^;'(°" 
of  the  faid  territory,  the  twenty-eighth  day  of  proved. " 
December,  one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and 
eighty  eight,  be  and  hereby  is  difapproved. 

Sec.  7.  And  be  it  further  enacted.    That  the  Certninex- 
expenfes  incurred  by  John  Cleves  Symmcs  and  P"^"'"  "'' 
George  Turner,  two  of  the  judges  of  the  faid  joL  c. 
territory,  in  fending  an  exprefs,  and  in  pur-  ^ymmes, 
chafing  a  boat  to  go  the  circuit,  in  the  year  one   ^' 
thoufand  {cNtn  hundred  and  ninety,  fhail  be 
liquidated  by  the  officers  of  the  treafury,  and 
paid  out  of  the  treafury  of  the  United  States. 

JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the  Houfc 
of  Reprefcntatives. 

RICHARD  HENRY  LEE,   Prefident pro  Umhorc 
of  the  Senate. 
Approved,  May  eighth,   1792. 

G^  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  tlic  United  States, 


(       '6-      ) 
CHAPTER     XLIII. 

ACT  to  compoifate  the  fcrvices  of  the  late  Colonel 
George   Gibson. 

E  it  enaBed  by  the  Senate  and  Hou/e  of  Repre- 

B  ^  fentatives  of  the  United  States  of  America^ 

be  paid  to  ^^  Congrefs  ajfeinbledy  That  there  be  allowed  and 

theheirsof  paid  to  the  cxecutors  or  adminillrators  of  the 

Cd    ^G     ^^^^  colonel  George  Gibfon  or  to  their  attorney 

Gibfon.     or  attornies   legally  appointed  and  authorized 

to  receive  the  lame  for  the   ufe  and  benefit  of 

his  heirs,  the  fum  of  one  thoufand  dollars  for 

extraordinary  fervices  by  him  rendered  to  the 

United  States  during  the  year   one  thoufand 

feven  hundred  and  feventy-fix. 

^  JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,  Speaker  of  the  Houji 

of  Reprefentatives. 

RICHARD  HENRY   LEE,  Prefident  pro  tempore 
of  the  Senate. 
Approved,  May  eighth,  1792. 

G°.  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States. 


CHAPTER     XLIV. 

An  ACT  concerning  the  Claim  of  John  Brown  Cutting 
againji  the  United  States. 

Sec.  I.  "13  E  /■/  enabled  by  the  Seiiate  and  Hoiife 
J3  of  Reprefentaii-ves  of  the  United  States 
b^°?id  to  ^f  ^^''^''^'^^5  ^'^^  Congrefs  ajfembled^    That  in  con- 
john  13.    fideration  of  certain  expenditures  on  behalf  of 
Cutting,     tj-jg  United  States,  made  by  John  Brown  Cut- 
ting in  the  year  one  thoufand  feven  hundred 
and  ninety,  there  be  advanced  and  paid  to  the 
faid  John  Brown  Cutting,  the  fum  of  two  thou- 
fand dollars,    out    of  any   public  money  not 
otherwife  appropriated. 
Secretary        Sec.  1.    And  be  it  further  enaSled,  That  the 
of  State  to  fecretary  of  date  be  authorized  to  enquire  into 

report     011     ,  .■'  ,    .  c      i        r  •  1    t    i        t-«  ^ 

his  entire  the  entire  claim  oi  the  laid  John  Brown  Cut- 
claim  a-  iing,  agpinft  the  United  States,  and  upon  re- 
S!"sl'  '^   ceipt  of  the  proof^j  and  exhibits  in,  fupport 


(       '63      ) 

thereof,  to  afcertain  what  fum  fhall  thereupon 
appear  to  be  due  to  or  from  him,  in  account 
with  the  United  States,  including  the  advance 
hereby  direded,  and  to  report  the  fame  to  the 
next  felTion  of  Congrefs. 

JONATHAN  TR.UMBULL,  Speaker  of  the  Houfc 
of  ReprefentaLives. 

RICHARD  HENRY  LEE,  Prejidait  pro  tempore 
cj  the  Senate. 
Approved,  May  eighth,  1792. 

G°.  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States. 

Y)  ESOLVED,  by  the  Senate  and  Houfe  of  Re^ 
_£V  prefentatives  of  the  United  States  of  America, 
in  Congrefs  affejiibled.  That  the  Secretary  of  the 
Treafury  caufe  to  be  provided,  for  the  ufe  of  the 
feveral  collectors  in  the  United  States,  printed 
clearances,  on  the  back  whereof  fliall  be  a  print- 
ed account  of  the  methods,  which  have  been 
found  to  anfwer  for  obtaining  frefli,  from  fait 
water,  and  of  conftruding  extempore  ftills,  of 
fuch  implements,  as  are  generally  on  board  of 
every  vefl'el, with  a  recommendation, in  all  cafes, 
where  they  (hall  have  occafion  to  refort  to  this 
expedient  for  obtaining  water,  to  publifli  the 
refult  of  their  trial  in  fome  gazette,  on  their 
return  to  the  United  States,  or  to  communicate 
it  for  publication,  to  the  office  of  the  Secretary 
of  State,  in  order  that  others  may,  by  their  fuc- 
cefs,  be  encouraged  to  make  fmiilar  trials,  and 
be  benefited  by  ai\y  improvements  or  new  ideas, 
which  may  occur  to  them  in  practice. 

JONATHAN  TRUMJ3ULL,  Speaker  of  the  Houfe 

of  Reprefentatives. 
RICHARD  HENRY  LEE,  Prefident  pro  tempon 
of  the  Senate. 
Approved,  May  eighth,  1792. 

G°.  WASHINGTON, 

Prefident  of  the  United  States. 


END    OF    THE    FIRST    SaSSION. 


A  TREATY  of  Peace  and  Friendship  made  and  con- 
cluded heivjeen  the  Prefident  of  the  United  States  of 
America,  on  the  part  and  behalf  of  the  faid  States,  and 
the  imderjlgned  Chiefs  and  Warriors  of  the  Cherokee 
Nation  of  Indians,  on  the  part  and  behalf  of  the  faid 
Nation. 

^HE  parties  being  defn-ous  of  eftablifliing  permanent 
peace  and  friendlliip  between  the  United  States 
and  the  faid  Cherokee  Nation,  and  the  citizens  and 
members  thereof,  and  to  remove  the  caufes  of  war  by 
afcertaining  their  limits,  and  making  other  necefiary, 
jufl  and  friendly  arrangements :  The  Prefident  of  the 
United  States,  by  William  Blount,  Governor  of  the 
territc^ry  of  the  United  States  of  America,  fouth  of  the 
river  Ohio,  and  Superintendant  of  Indian  affairs  for 
the  fouthern  diitritli,  who  is  vefted  with  full  powers 
for  thefe  purpofes,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  confent 
of  the  Senate  of  the  United  States  :  And  the  Cherokee 
Nation  by  the  underfigned  Chiefs  and  Warriors  reprc- 
fenting  the  faid  nation,  have  agreed  to  the  following 
articles,  namely  : 

Ap.ticle  I. 
There   fhall  be  perpetual  peace  and  friendOiip  be- 
tween all  the  citizens  of  the  United  States  of  America, 
and  all  the  individuals  ccmpofmg  the  whole  Cherokee 

nation  of  Indians. 

Article  II. 
The  underfigned  Chiefs  and  Warriors,  for  them.felves 
pnd  all  parts  of  the  Cherokee  nation,  do  acknowledge 
themfelves  and  the  faid  Cherokee  nation,  to  be  under 
the  proteftion  of  the  United  States  of  America,  and  ot 
no  other  fovereign  whofoever ;  and  they  alfo  ftipulatc 
that  the  faid  Cherokee  nation  will  not  hold  any  treaty 
with  any  foreign  power,  individual  Hale,  or  with  indi^ 
viduais  of  anv  ihite, 


(       '65      ) 

Article  III. 

The  Cherokee  nation  fliall  deliver  to  the  Governor 
of  the  territory  of  the  United  States  of  America,  fouth 
of  the  river  Ohio,  on  or  before  the  firft  day  of  April 
next,  at  this  place,  all  perlbns  who  are  now  prifoners, 
captured  by  them  from  any  part  of  the  United  States  : 
And  the  United  States  fliall  on  or  before  the  fame  day, 
and  at  the  fame  place,  reftore  to  the  Cherokees,  all  the 
prifoners  now  in  captivity,  which  the  citizens  of  the 
United  States  have  captured  from  them. 

Article  IV. 

The  boundary  between  the  citizens  of  the  United 
States  and  the  Cherokee  nation,  is  and  fliall  be  as  fol- 
lows :  Beginning  at  the  top  of  the  Currahee  mountain, 
where  the  Creek  line  paiTes  it ;  thence  a  direfl:  line  to 
Tugelo  river  ;  thence  north  eaft  to  the  Occunna  moun- 
tain, and  over  the  fame  along  the  South-Carolina  Indian 
boundary  to  the  North-Carolina  boundary  ;  thence 
north  to  a  point  from  which  a  line  is  to  be  extended  to 
the  river  Clinch,  that  fliall  pals  the  Holfton  at  the  ridge 
which  divides  the  waters  running  into  Little  River  from 
thofe  ruiuiing  into  the  Tenneffee  ;  thence  up  the  river 
Clinch  to  CampbelTs  line,  and  along  the  fame  to  the 
top  of  Cumberland  mountain  ;  thence  a  diredt  line  to 
the  Cumberland  river  where  the  Kentucky  road  crofles 
it ;  thence  down  the  Cumberland  river  to  a  point  from 
wliich  a  fouth-wcil  line  will  flrike  the  ridge  which  di- 
vides the  waters  of  Cumberland  from  thofe  of  Duck 
river,  forty  miles  above  Nainville  ;  thence  down  the  faid 
ridge  to  a  point  from  whence  a  fouth  weft  line  will 
ftrike  the  mouth  of  Duck  river. 

And  in  order  to  preclude  for  ever  all  difputes  rela- 
tive to  the  faid  boundary,  the  fitme  fliall  be  afccrtained, 
and  marked  plainly  by  three  peribns  appointed  on  the 
part  of  the  United  States,  and  three  Cherokees  on  the 
part  of  their  nation. 

And  in  order  to  extinguifli  forever  all  claims  of  the 
Cherokee  nation,  or  any  part  thereof  to  any  of  the  land 


(       i66       ) 

lying  to  the  right  of  the  line  above  defcribed,  begin- 
ning as  aforefaid  at  the  Ciirrahee  mountain,  it  is  hereby- 
agreed,  that  in  addition  to  the  confideration  heretofore 
made  for  the  faid  land,  the  United  States  will  caufe  cer- 
tain valuable  goods,  to  be  immediately  delivered  to  the 
underfigned  Chiefs  and  Vv^arriors,  for  the  ufe  of  their 
nation  ;  and  the  faid  United  States  will  alfo  caufe  the 
fum  of  one  thoufand  dollars  to  be  paid  annually  to  the 
faid  Cherokee  nation.  And  the  underfigned  Chiefs  and 
Warriors,  do  hereby  for  themfelves  and  the  whole 
Cherokee  nation,  their  heirs  and  defcendants,  for  the 
confiderations  above  mentioned,  reJeafe,  quit-claim,  rc- 
linqiiijh  and  cede,  all  the  land  to  the  right  of  the  hne  de- 
fcribed, and  beginning  as  aforefaid. 

Article  V. 
It  is  flipulated  and  agreed,  that  the  citizens  and  in- 
habitants of  the  United  States,  fhall  have  a  free  and 
iinmolefted  ufe  of  a  road  from  Wafiiington  diflrifl:  to 
Miro  diftrid,  and  of  the  navigation  of  the  Tenneffee 
river. 

Article  VI. 

It  is  agreed  on  the  part  of  the  Cherokees,  that  the 
United  States  fliall  have  the  fole  and  exclufive  right  of 
regulating  their  trade. 

Article  VII. 
The  United  States  folemnly  guarantee  to  the  Chero- 
kee nation,  all  their  lands  not  hereby  ceded. 

Article  VIII. 
If  any  citizen  of  the  United  States,  or  other,  perfon 
not  being  an  Indian,  fhall  fettle  on  any  of  the  Cherokee's 
lands,  fuch  perfon  fhall  forfeit  the  protedion  of  the 
United  States,  and  the  Cherokees  may  punifli  him  or 
not,  as  they  pleafe. 

Article  IX. 
No  citizen  or  inhabitant  of  the  United  States,  fliall 
attempt  to  hunt  or  deftroy  the  game  on  the  lands  of  the 


(      167      ) 

Chcrokees, — nor  fhall  any  citizen  or  inhabitant  go  into 
the  Cherokee  country,  without  a  paffport  firft  obtained 
from  the  Governor  of  fome  one  of  the  United  States, 
or  territorial  diflirids,  or  fuch  other  perfon  as  the  Pre- 
fident  of  the  United  States  may  from  time  to  time  au- 
thorize to  grant  the  fame. 

Article  X. 

If  any  Cherokee  Indian  or  Indians,  or  perfon  refiding 
among  them,  or  who  fnall  take  refuge  in  their  nation, 
fliall  Ileal  a  horfe  from,  or  commit  a  robbery  or  murder, 
or  other  capital  crime,  on  any  citizens  or  inhabitants 
of  the  United  States,  the  Cherokee  nation  fhall  be  bound 
to  deliver  him  or  them  up,  to  be  punifhed  according  to 
the  laws  of  the  United  States. 

Article  XI. 

If  any  citizen  or  inhabitant  of  the  United  States,  or 
of  either  of  the  territorial  diftricts  of  the  United  States, 
Hiall  go  into  any  town,  fettlement  or  territory  belong- 
ing to  the  Cherokees,  and  fnall  there  commit  any  crime 
upon,  or  trefpafs  againfl  the  peribn  or  property  of  any 
peaceable  and  friendly  Indian  or  Indians,  which  ifcom« 
mitted  within  the  jurifdidion  of  any  (late,  or  within 
the  jurifdidion  of  either  of  the  faid  diftricls,  againfl  a 
citizen  or  white  inhabitant  thereof,  would  be  punilha- 
ble  by  the  laws  of  fuch  flate  or  dillrict,  fuch  offender 
or  offenders,  fhall  be  fubjecl  to  the  fame  puniflnnent, 
and  fliall  be  proceeded  againfl:  in  the  fame  manner  as 
if  the  offence  had  been  committed  within  the  jurifdidion 
of  the  flate  or  diftrid  to  which  he  or  they  may  belong, 
againft  a  citizen  or  white  inhabitant  thereof. 

Article  XII. 

In  cafe  of  violence  on  the  perfons  or  property  of  the 
individuals  of  either  party,  neither  retahation  or  re- 
prifal  fhall  be  committed  by  the  other,  until  fatisfadion 
fhall  have  been  demanded  of  the  party  of  which  the 
aggreffor  is,  and  fliall  have  been  rcfufed. 


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Article  XIII. 

Tlie  Cherokees  lliall  glv€  notice  to  the  citizens  of 
the  United  States,  of  any  defigns  which  they  may  know, 
or  fufped:  to  be  formed  in  any  neighboring  tribe  or 
by  any  perfon  whatever,  ag::in(l  the  peace  and  interelt 
of  the  United  States. 

Article  XIV. 

That  the  Cherokee  nation  may  be  led  to  a  greater 
degree  of  civilization,  and  to  become  herdfmen  and  cul- 
tivators, inftead  of  remaining  in  a  ftate  of  hunters,  the 
United  States  will  from  time  to  timefurnifh  graruitoufly 
the  faid  nation  with  ufeful  implements  of  hulbandry, 
and  further  to  affift  the  faid  nation  in  fo  defireable  a 
purfuit,  and  at  the  fame  time  to  eflablilTi  a  certain 
mode  of  communication,  the  United  States  will  fend 
fuch,  and  fo  many  perfons  to  refide  in  faid  nation  as  they 
may  judge  proper,  not  exceeding  four  in  number,  who 
(hall  qualify  thenifelves  to  act  as  interpreters. — Thefe 
perfons  fhall  have  lands  afiigned  by  the  Cherokees  for 
cultivation  for  themfelves  and  their  fucceiTors  in  office — 
but  they  fhall  be  precluded  exercifmg  any  kind  of  traffic. 

Article  XV. 
All  animofities  for  pad  grievances  fiiall  henceforth 
ceafe,  and  the  contrafting  parties  will  carry  the  forego- 
ing treaty  into  full  execution  with  all  good  faith  and 
fmcerity. 

Article  XVI. 

This  treaty  fhall  take  effeft  and  be  obligatory  on  the 
contrading  parties,  as  foon  as  the  fame  lliall  have  been 
ratified  by  the  Prefident  of  the  United  States,  with  the 
advice  and  confent  of  the  Senate  of  the  United  States. 

In  witness  of  all  and  every  thing  herein  deter- 
mined between  the  United  States  of  America  and  the 
whole  Cherokee  nation,  the  parties  have  hereunto  fet 
their  hands  and  feals,  at  the  Treaty  Ground  on  the  bank 
of  the  Holdon,  near  the  mouth  of  the  French  Broad, 
within  the  United  States,  this  fecond  day  of  July,  in  the 


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year  of  our  Lord,  one   thoufand  feven  hundred  and 
ninety-one. 

Wm.  BLOUNT,  (l.s.) 

Governor  in  and  over  the  Territory  of  the  United  States  of  America 
fouth  of  the  river  Ohio,  and  Superintendant  of  Indian  Affairs  for 
the  Southern  Dipicl.  -^        J 

Chuleoah,  f  or  the  Boots, 

Squollecuttah,  f  or  Hanging  Maw, 

Occunna,  f  or  the  Badger, 

Enoleh,  f  or  Black  Fox, 

Nontuaka,  f  or  the  Northward, 

Tekakifka,  | 

Chutloh,  f  or  Kingfiiher, 

Tuckafeh,  f  or  Tarrapin, 

Kateh,  f 

Kunnochatutloh,  f  or  the  Crane 

Cauquillchanah,  f  or  the  Thigh 

Chcfquottfcloneh,  f  or  Yellow  Bird 

Chlckafawrehe,  f  or  Chikafaw  Killer 

Tuilcegatehe  f  Tuikega  Killer 

Kulfarehe,  | 

Tinkflialene,  | 

Sawutteh,  f  or  Slave  Catcher,  ^fs 

Aukuah,  | 

Oofenaleh,  \ 

Kenotetah,  f  or  Rifing  Fawn 

Kaneteroka,  f  or  Standing  Turkey 

Yonewatleh,  f  or  Bear  at  Home, 

Long  Will,  f 

Kunolkefkie,  f  or  John  Watts, 

Nenetooyah,  f  or  Bloody  Fellow, 

Chuquilatague,  f  or  Double-Head, 

Koolaquah,  f  or  Big  Acorn, 

Toowayelloh,  f  or  Bold  Hunter, 

Jahle-oonoyehka,  f  or  Middle  Striker, 

Kinnefah,  f  or  Cabin, 

Tullotehe,  f  or  Two  Killer, 


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Kooloufke,  f  or  Stopt  Still, 

Kulfatehe,  f 

Auquotague,  f  the  Litte  Turkey's  Son. 


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Talohtefke,  f  or  Upfetter,  l.  s. 

Cheakonefke,  -f  or  Otter  Lifter,  L.  s. 

Kediukaune,  f  or  She  Reigns,  l.  s. 

Toonaunailoh,  f  l.  s. 

Teefteke,  -f  or  Common  Diflurber,  l.  s. 

Robin  Mc.  Clemore,  l.  s. 

Skyuka,  -j-  l.  s. 
JohnThompfon,  Interpreter, 
James  Cery,  Interpreter. 

DONE    IN    PRESENCE    OF 

Dan.  Smith,    Secretary  of  the  Territory    of  the  United 

States,  fouth  of  the  River  Ohio. 
Thos.  Kennedy,  ofKaintuckey. 
Jas.  Robertfon,  of  Mero  Diftricl:. 
Claiborne  Watkins,  of  Virginia. 
Jno.  M'Whitney,  of  Georgia. 

Fauche,  of  Georgia. 
Titus  Ogden,  North-Carolina. 
John  Chifolm,  of  Waflienton  DIftrid. 
Robert  King. 
Thos.  Gegg. 


ARMISTICE  declaring  a  Ceffation  of  Hojiilities  between 
the  United  States  and  Great-Britain.  Done  at 
Verfailles,  20th  Jan.   1783. 

NOUS  fouffignes  Miniftres  Plenipotentiaires  des 
Etats-Unis  de  I'Amerique  Septentrionale,  a'lant 
re9u  de  la  part  de  M.  Fitzherbert,  Miniftre  Plenipo- 
tentiaire  de  fa  Majefte  Britannique,  une  Declaration  re- 
lative a  une  fufpenfion  d'armes  a  etablir  entre  fa  dite 
Majefle  et  les  dits  Etats,  dont  la  teneur  s*en  fuit. 

"  Comme  les  articles  preliminaires  arretes  et  fignes 
aujourd'hui  entre  fa  Majefle  le  Roi  de  la  Grande  Bre- 
tagne  et  fa  Majefle  le  Roi  Tres  Chretien  d'une  part,  et 
aulli  entre  fa  dite  Majefle  Britannique  et  fa  Majefle  Ca- 


(      '7>       ) 

tfiolique  d'autre  part,  renferment  la  ftlpulation  de  la 
ceflation  des  hoftilites  entre  ces  trois  Puiifances ;  laquel- 
le  doit  commencer  apres  I'echange  des  ratifications  des 
dits  articles  preliminaires ;  et  comme  par  le  traitc  pro- 
vifionel  figne  le  30  Novembre  dernier  entre  fa  Majeftc 
Britannique  et  les  Etats  Unis  de  I'Amerique  Septentrio- 
nale  ;  il  a  ete  ftipule,  que  ce  traite  fortiroit  fon  effet 
auffitot  que  lapaix  entre  les  dites  couronnes  feroit  reta-- 
blie  ;  le  fouffigne  Miniftre  Plenipotentiaire  de  fa  Majeftc 
Britannique,  declare  au  nom,  et  par  ordre  exprcs  du 
Roi  fon  maitre,  que  les  dits  Etats-Unis  de  I'Amerique 
Septentrionale,  leurs  fujets,  et  leurs  poffeffions,  feront 
compris  dans  la  fufpenfi^n  d'armes  fufmentionnee,  et 
qu'ils  jouiront  en  confequence  du  benefice  de  la  ceffation 
des  hoftilites  aux  memes  epoques,  et  de  la  meme  ma- 
niere  que  les  trois  couronnes  fufdites,  leurs  fujets  et 
leurs  poifefTions  refpeftives,  le  tout  a  condition,  que  de 
la  part  et  au  nom  des  dits  Etats  Unis  de  I'Amerique  Sep- 
tentrionale, il  foit  delivre  une  declaration  femblable  qui 
conftate  leur  afTentiment  a  la  prefente  fufpenfion  d'armes 
et  renferme  raffurance  de  la  plus  parfaite  reciprocite  de 
leur  part. 

En  foi  de  quoi,    nous  Miniftre  Plenipotentiaire  de  fa 
Majeftc  Britannique,  avons  fignc  la  prefente  declara- 
tion, et  y  avons  fait  apofer  le  cachet  de  nos  amies.  A 
Verfailles  le  2c.  Jan.  1783^ 
(L.  S. )     (Signe)     ALLEYNE  FITZ  HERBERT." 

AVONS  au  nom  des  dius  Etats-Unis  de  TAmerique 
Septentrionale  et  en  vertu  des  pouvoirs  dont  ils  nous 
ont  munis,  accepte  la  declaration  ci-defTus,  I'acceptons 
par  ces  prefentes  purement  et  fimplement  et  declarons 
reciproquement  que  les  dits  Etats  feront  ceffer  toutes 
hoftilites  contre  fa  Majeftc  Britannique,  fes  fujets  et  fes 
pofTeiTions  aux  termes  et  aux  epoques  convenus  entre 
fa  dire  Majeftc  le  Roi  de  la  Grande  Bretagne,  fa  Majeftc 
le  Roi  de  France  et  fa  Majeftc  le  Roi  d'Efpagne,  ainfi,  et 
de  la  \neme  maniere  qu'il  a  etc  convenu  entre  ces  trois 
couronnes,  et  pour  produire  le  meme  effet. 


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En  foi  de  quot  nous  Miniftres  Plenipotentialres,  des 
Etats-Unis  de  I'Amerique  Septentrionale  avons  figne 
la  prefente  declaration  et  y  avons  appofe  les  cachets 
de  nos  amies.  A  Verfailles  le  vingt  Janvier,  mil 
fept  cent  quatre-vingt  trois. 

JOHN  ADAMS.     (L.  S.) 
B.  FRANKLIN.     (L.  S.) 

TRANSLATION. 

WE,  the  underfigned  Miniflers  Plenipotentiary  of  the 
United  States  of  North  America,  having  received 
from  Mr.  Fitz  Herbert,  Minilter  Plenipotentiary  of  his 
Britannic  Majefty,  a  declaration,  relative  to  a  fufpen- 
fion  of  arms,  to  be  eflablifhed  between  his  faid  Ma- 
jefty and  the  faid  States,  the  tenor  whereof  is  as  fol- 
lows: 

"  WHEREAS,  the  preliminary  articles  agreed  upon 
and  figned  this  day,  between  his  Majefty  the  King  of 
Great  Britain  and  his  Majefty  the  Moft  Chriftian  PCing 
on  the  one  part,  and  likewife  between  his  faid  Britan- 
nic Majefty  and  his  Catholic  Majefty  on  the  other  part, 
contain  the  ftipulation  of  a  cefTation  of  hoftilities  be- 
tween thofe  three  powers,  which  is  to  take  place  after 
the  exchange  of  the  ratifications  of  the  faid  preliminary 
articles  :  And  whereas  by  the  provifional  treaty  fign- 
ed on  the  thirtieth  day  of  November  laft  between  his 
Britannic  Majefty  and  the  United  States  of  North  Ame- 
rica, it  hath  been  ftipulated  that,  that  treaty  (liould  take 
eftedt  as  foon  as  peace  fliould  be  eftabiifned  between  the 
faid  crowns  ;— The  underfigned,  Minifter  Plenipoten- 
tiary of  his  Britannic  Majefty,  does  declare,  in  the 
name  and  by  the  exprefs  order  of  the  King  his  mafter, 
that  the  faid  United  States  of  North  America,  their 
fubjefts  and  their  pofleffions,  fhail  be  comprehended  in 
the  above-mentioned  fufpenfion  of  arms,  and  that,  in 
confequence  they  ihall  enjoy  the  benefit  of  the  ceffa- 
tion  of  hoftilities,  at  the  fame  epochs,  and  in  the  fame 
manner  as  the  three  crowns  above  mentioned,  their 
fubjecls  and  their  refpedive  pofleflions ;  the  whole  up- 


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on  condition  that  on  the  part  and  in  the  name  of  the 
faid  United  States  of  North  America,  a  fimilar  declara- 
tion (hall  be  deUvered  exprefsly  declaring  their  affent 
to  the  prefent  fufpenfion  of  arms,  and  containing  the 
aflurances  of  the  mofl  perfect  reciprocity  on  their  part. 
In  faith  whereof,  We,  theMinifter  Plenipotentiary 
of  His  Britannic  Majcfty,  have  figned  the  prefent  de- 
claration, and  have  caufed  the  feal  of  our  arms  to  be 
thereto  affixed. 

Verfailles  20th  January  178'^. 
(l.  s.)  (Signed)      ALLEYNE  FITZHERBERT/' 

Have,  in  the  name  of  the  faid  United  States  of 
North  i^merica,  and  by  virtue  of  the  powers  with 
which  they  have  veiled  us,  accepted  the  above  declara- 
tion, do  by  thefe  prefents  merely  and  limply  accept  it, 
and  do  reciprocally  declare  that  the  faid  States  fliall 
caufe  all  hoftilities  to  ceafe  againil  his  Britannic  Ma- 
jefty,  his  fubjecls  and  his  poifeffions,  at  the  terms  and 
epochs  agreed  upon  between  his  faid  Majefly  the  King 
of  Great-Britain,  his  Majefty  the  King  of  France,  and 
his  Majefly  the  King  of  Spain,  fo,  and  in  the  fame  man- 
ner as  has  been  agreed  between  thofe  three  Crowns, 
and  to  produce  the  fame  effects. 

In  faith  whereof.  We,  the  Minifters  Plenipoten- 
tiary of  the  United  States  of  North  America,  have 
figned  the  prefent  declaration,  and  have  affixed 
thereto  the  feal  of  our  arms. 

Verfailles  the  twentieth  of  January  one  thoufand 
feven  hundred  and  eighty-three. 

(Signed)  JOHN  ADAMS,       (L.  S.) 

B.  FRANKLIN.        (L.  S.) 

Copy  of  the  firil  and  twenty  fecond  of  the  Prelimi- 
nary Articles,  between  France  and  Great-Britain, 
figned  at  Verfailles  the  twentieth  January  1783. 

Article  I.  Auffitot  que  les  preliminaires  feront  fig- 
nes  et  ratifies,  I'amitie  fmcere  fera  retablie  entre  fa  Ma- 
jefle  Trcs  Chreticnne  et  fa  Majefle  Britannique,  leurs 
Royaumes,  Etats  et  Sujets  par  mer  et  par  tcrre,  dans 


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toutes  les  parties  du  monde  ;  il  fera  envoye  des  ordres 
aux  armees  et  efcadres,  ainfi  qu'aux  fujets  des  deux  Paif- 
fances  de  cefler  toute  hoililite,  et  de  vivre  dans  la  plus 
parfaite  union  en  oubliant  le  paffe,  dont  leurs  fouverains 
leur  donnent  I'ordre  et  Texemple,  et  pour  Texecution 
de  cet  article,  il  fera  donne,  de  part  et  d'autre  des  paflfe- 
ports  de  mer  aux  vaiiTeaux  qui  feront  expedies  pour  en 
porter  la  nouvelle  dans  les  polTeffions  des  dites  puif- 
fances. 

Article  2  2.  Pour  prevenir  tous  les  fujets  de  plaintes 
et  de  conteftation  qui  pourroient  naitre  a  roccafion  des 
prifes  qui  pourroient,  etre  faites  en  mer  depuis  la  Tigna- 
ture  de  ces  articles  preliiiiinaires,  on  eft  convenu  reci- 
proquement  que  les  vailfeaux  et  efFets  qui  pourroient  etre 
pris  dans  la  Manche  et  dans  les  Mers  du  Nord,  apres 
I'efpacede  douze  jours  a  compter  depuis  la  ratification  des 
prefents  articles  preliminaires,  feront  de  part  et  d'autre 
reftitues  ;  Que  le  terme  fera  d'un  mois  depuis  la  Manche 
et  les  Mers  du  Nord,  jufqu'aux  Ifles  Canaries  inclu- 
fivement,  foit  dans  Tocean  ;  foit  dans  la  Mediterrannee; 
de  deux  mois  depuis  les  dites  Ifles  Canaries,  jufqu'a  la 
ligne  equinoxiale  ou  I'cquateur  ;  et  enfin  de  cinq  mois 
dans  tous  les  autres  endroits  du  monde,  fans  aucune  ex- 
ception ni  autre  diftindlion  plus  particuliere  de  terns  et 
de  lieux. 

TRANSLATION. 

Art.  I.  As  foon  as  the  preliminaries  fliall  be 
figned  and  ratified,  fmcere  friendfliip  Ihall  be  re-eftab- 
lifhed  between  His  Moft  Chriftian  Majefty,  and  His  Bri- 
tannick  Majefty,  their  kingdoms,  ftates,  and  fubjefts  by 
fea  and  by  land,  in  all  parts  of  the  world  ;  orders  fliall 
be  fent  to  the  armies  and  fquadrons,  as  well  as  to  the  fub- 
jecls  of  the  two  powers,  to  ceafe  all  hoftilities,  and  to 
live  in  the  moft  perfect  union, forgetting  the  paft,  accord- 
ing to  the  order  and  example  of  their  fovereigns  ;  and 
for  the  execution  of  this  article  fea-paffes  fhall  be  given 
on  each  fide  to  the  fhips  which  fhall  be  difpatched  to  car- 
ry the  news  to  the  poiTefrions  of  the  faid  powers. 


(       '75      ) 

Art.  2  2.  To  prevent  all  the  caufes  of  complaint  and 
difpute  which  might  arife  on  account  of  the  prizes  which 
may  be  taken  at  fea  after  the  figning  of  thefe  preliminary 
articles  ;  it  is  reciprocally  agreed  that  the  veffels  and 
cfFedls  which  may  be  taken  in  the  Channel  and  in  the 
North  Seas,  after  the  fpace  of  twelve  days,  to  be  com- 
puted from  the  ratification  of  the  prefent  preliminary  ar- 
ticles, fhall  be  reftored  on  each  fide.  That  the  term 
fhall  be  of  one  month  from  the  Channel  and  the  North 
Seas  to  the  Canary  Iflands  inclufively,  whether  in  the 
Ocean  or  in  the  Mediterranean  ;  of  two  months  from 
the  faid  Canary  Iflands  to  the  Equinoxial  line  or  Equa- 
tor ;  and  laftly,  of  five  months  in  all  other  parts  of  the 
world,  without  any  exception,  nor  other  more  particu- 
lar diltindtion  of  times  and  places. 


TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 


A. 


MENDMENtS  to  the  Confiitution  of  the  United  States  Page  3 

Ratifications  of  the  amendments  to  the  Conftitution  of  the  United  States 

by  the  ftateof  New-Jerfey                    -  -              6 

Maryland               -  -                           7 

North- Carolina              -  -               8 

South -Carolina           _  -                   9 

New-Hampfliire              -  -          10 

Delaware              -  -                   ibid. 

New -York                 -  -                II 

Pennfylvania             -  -          13.   15 

Rhode-Ifland         -  -                15 

Vermont          -               -  -               16 

Virginia              -  -                   "      '7 

An  Atl  granting  farther  time  for  makinc;  return  of  the  enumeration  of  the 

inhabitants  in  the   diflrift  of  SouthrCarolina             -  -                21 

An  Aft  for  the  rehef  of  David  Cook  and  Thomas  Campbell  -  22 

An  AQ.  makins;  appropriations  for  the  fupport  of  government  for  the  year 

one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and  ninety-tv.'O  -  -  23 

An  Aft  for  carrying  into  effeft  a  contraft  between  the  United  States  and 

the  ftate  of  Pennfylvania  _  .  _  29 

An  Aft  to  extend  the  time  limited  for  fettling  the  accounts  of  the  United 
States  with  the  individual  ftates  -  _  .  -  30 

An  Aft  concerning  certain  fifiieries  of  the  United  States,  and  for  the  regu- 
lation and  government   of  the  fiiliermen  employed  therein  -  31 

An  Aft  to  eftablifli  the  poft-office  and  pod-roads  within  the  United  States      37 

An  Aft  relative  to  the  eleftion  of  a  Prefidcnt  and  Vice-Prefident  of  the 
United  States,  and  declaring  the  officer  who  fnall  aft  as  Prefident  in 
cafe  of  vacancies   in  the  ofSces  both  of  Prefident  and  Vice- Prefident        53 

An  Afi  for  making  farther  and  more  effectual  provifion  for  the  proteftion 
of  the  frontiers  of  the  United  States  .  -  -57 

An  Aft  declaring  the  confent  of  Congrefs  to  a  certain  aft  of  the  ilate  of  Ma- 
ryland, and  to  continue  for  a  longer  time  an  aft  declaring  the  aflent  of 
Congrefs  to  certain  afts  of  the  flates  of  Maryland,  Georgia  and  Rhode- 
Ifland  and  Providence  Plantations,  fo  far  as  the  fame  refpefts  the  ftates 
of  Georgia,  and  Rhode-Ifland  and  Providence  Plantations  -  62 

An  Aft  to  provide  for  the  fettlcmenf  of  the  claims  of  widows  and  orphans 
barred  by  the  limitations  heretofore  eftabliflied,  and  to  regulate  the  claims 
to  invalid  pcnfions  -  _  .  _  6^ 

An  Aft  providing  for  the  fettlement  of  the  claims  of  perfons  under  parti- 
cular circumflances  barred    by   the  limitations  heretofore   eftablifhed       67 

An  Aft  for  the  relief  of  certain  widows,  orphans,  invahds  and  other  perfons     63 


CONTENTS,  ii 

An  Aft  fupplemental  to  the  a£l  for  making  farther  and  more  effeflual 

provifion  for  the  protedion  of  the  frontiers  of  the  United  States  71 

An  aft  for  finifhingthc  light-houfe  on  Baldhead,  at  the  mouih  of  Cape- 
Fear  river,  in  the  ftate  of  North-CaroUna  -  -  ibid. 
An  AfteftabUfliingamiiit,  and  regulating  the  coins  of  the  United  States  72 
An  Aft  fupplementary  to  the  aft  for  the  eftablifhment  and  fupport  of  light- 

hoafes,  beacons,  buoys  and  public  piers  -  -  83 

An  Aft  to  ereft  a  light-houfe  on  Montok- Point,  in  the  ftate  of  New- York     83 
An  Aft  for  afcertalning  the  bounds  of  a  craft  of  land  purchafed  by  John 
ClevesSymmes  -  -  -  -  ihid. 

An  Aft  for  fixinj  the  compenfations  of  the  door-keepers  of  the  Senate 
and  HoufeofReprefentativesinCongrefs  -  -  84 

At  Aft  for  altering  the  times  of  holding  the  circuit  courts,  in  certain  dif- 
trifts  of  the  United  States,  and  for  other  purpofes  -  85 

An  Aft  tocompsnfate  the  corporation  of  truflees  of  the  public  grammar 
fchool  and  academy  of  Wilmington,  in  the  ftate  of  Delaware,  for  the  oc- 
cupation of,  and  damages  done  to  the  faid  fchool,  during  the  late  war         88 

An  Aft  for  apportioning  reprefentatives  among  the  feveral  ftates  accord- 
ing to  the  fiift  enumeration  _  .  .  _  gg 

An  Aft  concerning  confuls  and  vice-confuls  -  -         go 

An  Aft  authorizing  the  grant  and  conveyance  of  certain  lands  to  the  Ohio 
Company  of  Affociates  -  -  -  -  96 

An  Aft  to  indemnify  the  eftate  of  the  late  major-general  Nathaniel  Green,    , 
fora  certain  bond  entered  into  by  him  during  the  late  war         -  gn 

An  Aft  for  raifing  a  farther  fum  of  money  for  the  proteftion  of  the  frontiers,     ' 
and  for  other  purpofes  therein  mentioned  -  -  loi 

An  Aft  to  provide  for  calling  forth  the  militia  to  execute  the  lasvs  of  the 
Union,   fupprefs  infurreftions,  and  repel  invafions  -  m 

An  Aft  for  the  relief  of  perfons  imprifoned  for  debt         -  -  1 15 

An  Aft  authorizing  the  grant  and  conveyance  of  certain  lands  to  John 
ClevesSymmes,and  hisaflbciates  _  .  _  117 

An  Aft  to  alter  the  time  for  the  next  annual  meeting  of  Congrefs  119 

An  Aft  concerning  the  duties  on  fpii  its  diftilled  within  the  United  States       ibid. 

An  Aft  more  effeftually  to  provide  for  the  national  defence  by  eftablifhing 
an  uniform  militia  throughout  the  United  States  -  -  128 

An  Aft  relative  to  the  compenfations  to  certain  officers  employed  in  the 
colleftion  of  the  duties  of  impofl  and  tonnage  -  -  134 

An  Aft  to  continue  in  force  the  aft  intituled,  "  An  Aft  to  provide  for  mi- 
tigating or  remitting  the  penalties  and  forfeitures  accruing  under  the  re- 
venue laws  in  certain  cafes,"  and  to  make  further  provifion  for  the  pay- 
ment of  penfions  to  invalids  -  -  -  138 

Afl  Aft  for  regulating  proceffes  in  the  courts  of  the  United  States,  and 
providing  compenfations  for  the  officers  of  the  faid  courts,  and  for  jurors 
and  witneffes  -  -  -  —  139 

An  Aft  making  alteratious  in  the  Trea(ury  and  War  departments  146 


ii;  C     O     N     t     K     N     T     s. 

An  A£l  fupplementary  to  the  aft  making  provifion  for  the  debt  of  the  United! 

States  .  .  -  .  .  i^t 

An /.ft   to  provide  for  a  copper  coinage  .  _  _  j^^ 

An  Aft  for  making  compenfations  to  the  commiffioncrs  of  loans  for  extra- 
ordinary expenfes  -  -  -  -  "^57 
An  Aft  making  certain  appropriations  therein  fpecified              -               ihii'- 

An  Aft  refpefting  the  government  of  the  territories  of  the  United  States 
northwefl  and  fouth  of  the  river  Ohio  _  _  -  i6(3 

An  Afttocompenfate  the  fervices  of  the  late  mlrmel  (George  Gibfon  163 

An  Aft  concerning  the  claim  of  John  Brown  Cutting  againft  the  United 
States  -  -  .  _  _  -  ihid, 

Herdve,  direfting  the  Secretary  of  the  Ticafury  to  furnifh  the  feve- 
ral  colleftors  v.iih  printed  clearances,  flating  the  accounts  of  the  me- 
thods that  have   bcenufed  to  obtain  frefh  from  fait  water,  &e.         -         163 

Treaty  of  peace  with  the  Cherokee  nation  of  Indians  -  164 

Aimiflice  dec!?rii!g  a  ccffation  of  hofiilitics  between  the  United  States 
and  Great- tiitain  -  -  -  -  170 


